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AI ~4 minnext-token prediction, sampling, temperature
Why ChatGPT changes its next word
Finish “The cat sat on the ___.” If ChatGPT finished it twenty times, would it choose the same word every time?
AI · ~4 min · live model
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The idea behind this lab (open after you’ve tried it)
A language model gives every possible next word a probability and then samples. Temperature reshapes those odds: low makes it predictable, high makes it adventurous.
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