# How LLMs actually work

> What happens between pressing send and reading the reply.

A free course from Learnfold. 9 lessons, 35–45 min. Web: https://learnfold.app/learn/llms/

## What you'll learn

Explain in plain words how a language model turns your message into a reply, how it was trained, and why it is sometimes confidently wrong.

## Before you start

You've used a chatbot like ChatGPT or Claude. No math or programming is needed.

## Outline

### Chapter 1: Words in, words out

What a language model does when it answers you, and what it actually sees when you type.

1. [One word at a time](https://learnfold.app/learn/llms/next-word/): A reply is built by predicting the next piece of text, over and over, with a roll of weighted dice.
2. [Tokens, not words](https://learnfold.app/learn/llms/tokens/): Text is chopped into chunks and swapped for numbers before the model ever sees it.
3. [Meaning as a direction](https://learnfold.app/learn/llms/embeddings/): Each token becomes a point in a huge space, where nearby points and shared directions carry meaning.

### Chapter 2: How it's built

The design inside the model, the training run that fills it with knowledge, and the tuning that turns it into an assistant.

4. [Attention: words looking at words](https://learnfold.app/learn/llms/attention/): How each token pulls in information from the words before it, layer after layer.
5. [Learning from a mountain of text](https://learnfold.app/learn/llms/pretraining/): Billions of random numbers become a model by guessing the next token trillions of times.
6. [From text predictor to assistant](https://learnfold.app/learn/llms/assistant/): Example conversations and human preferences teach a base model to answer instead of ramble.

### Chapter 3: Limits and open questions

Why models make things up, how tools and search help, and what researchers still can't explain.

7. [Why it makes things up](https://learnfold.app/learn/llms/hallucination/): Blurry knowledge in the weights, exact knowledge in the context window, and what happens in between.
8. [Tools, search, and agents](https://learnfold.app/learn/llms/tools/): A model that can only write text can still search, calculate, and act, by asking software to do it.
9. [What nobody knows yet](https://learnfold.app/learn/llms/open-questions/): The open problems: reading a model's insides, sudden abilities, and what understanding means here.

## Lessons

## 1. One word at a time

When you send a message to ChatGPT or Claude, the reply looks like a finished thought being typed out for show. It isn't. The model builds the reply one small piece at a time, and every piece is a fresh decision.

Here is the whole loop. The model reads everything so far, your message plus whatever it has already written. It gives a score to every possible next piece of text, tens of thousands of candidates. One gets picked and stuck on the end. Then the loop runs again with that piece included. A 300-word answer is a few hundred trips around the loop.

### Scores become odds

The raw scores aren't probabilities yet. A step called softmax turns them into odds that add up to 100 percent. After "The cat sat on the", a model might give "mat" the best odds, "floor" and "sofa" a decent chance, and "moon" almost none.

Then the model's job is done. It doesn't choose. A few lines of ordinary code called the sampler roll dice weighted by those odds, and whatever comes up is the next word.

### Temperature

Before the dice roll, the scores get divided by a setting called temperature. Below 1, the gaps between scores grow, so the favorite pulls further ahead. Above 1, the gaps shrink and long shots get a real chance. At 0, the sampler skips the dice and always takes the top choice.

Try it. The odds are made up, but the math is the real thing.



Slide the temperature to 0 and sample a few times. You get "mat" every time. Push it to 2 and "keyboard" starts turning up. Neither end is correct. Low temperatures suit jobs with one right answer, like pulling a date out of an email. Higher ones give variety, which helps a brainstorm and hurts a calculation. Most chat apps pick a setting for you and don't show it.

The dice explain two things you've probably noticed. Ask the same question twice and you can get two different answers. And a model can talk itself into a corner. It never goes back to change a word, so once an unlikely word is picked, everything after it has to make sense of it.

### Small task, big consequences

"Predicting the next word" sounds trivial. It isn't. To predict the next line of a chemistry textbook well, it helps to have absorbed some chemistry. To continue a detective story, it helps to keep track of who was in the room. Whether that adds up to understanding is a real debate, and you'll meet it at the end of this course. The mechanism isn't up for debate. One piece at a time, picked by dice the model loaded.

One correction before moving on. I've been saying "word". Models don't actually work in words, and the next lesson shows what they use instead.

### Rabbit holes

> Why does lowering the temperature make answers more repetitive?

> If a model can never go back and change a word, how does it ever correct itself mid-answer?

> What other sampling tricks exist besides temperature, and why would an app use them?

Read online: https://learnfold.app/learn/llms/next-word/


## 2. Tokens, not words

A model never sees letters. Before your message reaches it, a program called a tokenizer chops the text into chunks called tokens and swaps each chunk for an ID number from a fixed list. The model only ever works with those numbers.

### Where the chunks come from

The list, called the vocabulary, is built before training by counting text. Start with single characters. Find the pair that shows up side by side most often and glue it into a new chunk. Repeat that many thousands of times. Common words like "the" end up as one token, and rare words get built from pieces. A typical vocabulary holds tens of thousands of tokens, sometimes a few hundred thousand. The method is called byte-pair encoding, and most models use some version of it.

Watch the spaces. In English, a token usually carries the space in front of it, so " cat" with a space and "cat" without one are different tokens. "Cat" with a capital is a third.

Pick a sentence below. The splits are illustrative. Every model has its own tokenizer, but they all behave roughly like this.



Tap Show what the model sees. That row of numbers is the whole input. Everything the model does starts from there.

### Odd behavior that tokens explain

- **Spelling.** Asked how many r's are in "strawberry", models have often stumbled. The model gets something like "str", "aw", "berry" as three IDs. The letters are hidden inside the chunks, and the model has to have learned how each chunk is spelled. It usually has, but not reliably.
- **Arithmetic.** Long numbers get split into chunks that don't line up with ones, tens, and hundreds, so 48213 might arrive as 482 and 13. Working digit by digit gets awkward. Newer tokenizers split numbers more regularly, and a model that can call a calculator avoids the problem.
- **Cost and limits.** Prices and the limit on how much a model can read at once are counted in tokens. In English a token is roughly three quarters of a word, so 1,000 tokens is about 750 words.
- **Other languages.** Tokenizers built mostly from English text break other languages into more pieces. The same sentence can take two or three times as many tokens in some languages, which means slower, pricier answers and less room to work with.

### Why not just use letters?

Letters would make every text several times longer, and the model's main operation gets expensive fast as text grows. Whole words fail the other way. No fixed list can hold every name, typo, and newly coined word. Tokens are the compromise. They're long enough to keep texts short, and since the vocabulary includes every single byte, any text at all can be encoded, even emoji and words that didn't exist last year. Unusual text just costs more tokens.

So when you type a message, the model receives a short list of numbers. The next question is how a number like 9246 can mean anything at all.

### Rabbit holes

> Why does a leading space make " cat" a different token from "cat"?

> How would a model that reads single letters behave differently from one that reads tokens?

> Why do some languages need so many more tokens for the same sentence?

Read online: https://learnfold.app/learn/llms/tokens/


## 3. Meaning as a direction

A token ID is just a label. Token 9246 isn't any closer in meaning to token 9247 than to token 12. So the first thing a model does is look up each ID in a big table and swap it for a long list of numbers, often a few thousand of them. That list is called an embedding.

### A list of numbers is a point

Two numbers pin a point on a map, how far east and how far north. Three numbers pin a point in a room. A list of a few thousand numbers pins a point in a space with a few thousand directions. You can't picture that, but the arithmetic works the same way. Two points can be close together or far apart, and you can draw an arrow from one to the other.

Nobody chooses these numbers. They start out random and get adjusted during training, nudged in whatever way improves the model's predictions. What falls out is that tokens used in similar ways end up near each other. "Cat" lands near "dog" and "kitten". "Tuesday" lands near "Wednesday". The model was never told that cats and dogs are related. Putting them close together helped it predict text, so it happened.



Drag the map sideways or use the slider. Related words keep their neighbors as the illustrative space turns.

### Directions carry meaning too

The surprising part is that directions can mean something, as well as distances. In a famous result from earlier word models, the arrow from "man" to "woman" pointed roughly the same way as the arrow from "king" to "queen". Start at king, subtract man, add woman, and you land near queen. Similar arrows turned up for country to capital and for present tense to past.

Hold that story loosely. The famous examples were picked because they worked, and plenty of analogies come out messier. The broad idea has held up, though, and it goes further inside modern models. Researchers keep finding directions that seem to track things like what language a text is in, whether a statement is true, or whether the writing is formal.

### Meaning shifts with context

The lookup table gives "bank" one starting point, whether you mean the side of a river or a place that holds money. That can't be the end of it. As a token passes through the model's layers, its list of numbers is rewritten again and again using the words around it. By the middle layers, "bank" in "we fished from the bank" and "bank" in "the bank denied my loan" have moved to very different places.

So when people say a model represents meaning, this is roughly what they mean. A word's meaning, to a model, is a position and a set of directions in a huge space, learned because they helped predict text. Whether that deserves the word "meaning" in the full human sense is a fair question. It is clearly much more than counting which words appear together.

The rewriting step, where words reshape each other, is the heart of the whole machine. That's the next lesson.

### Rabbit holes

> Why would putting similar words close together help a model predict the next word?

> How do researchers find a direction inside a model that tracks something like truth?

> Do two different models end up with similar maps of meaning?

Read online: https://learnfold.app/learn/llms/embeddings/


## 4. Attention: words looking at words

Read this: "The trophy didn't fit in the suitcase because it was too big." What does "it" mean? The trophy. Change "big" to "small" and "it" becomes the suitcase. To predict well, a model has to work out which earlier words matter for the word it's on. The mechanism that does this is called attention. It's the core of the transformer, the design almost every modern language model is built on.

### How attention works, roughly

At each layer, every token turns its list of numbers into three new ones.

- A **query**, which describes what it's looking for. For "it", something like "I'm a pronoun. Which thing am I pointing to?"
- A **key**, which advertises what it offers. "Trophy" might advertise "I'm a physical object, and I'm the subject".
- A **value**, the information it hands over to any token that attends to it.

Each token compares its query with the key of every earlier token. Strong matches get a big share of its attention and weak matches get almost none. Then it blends together the values it attended to, weighted by those shares, and adds the blend to its own numbers. "It" leaves the layer carrying information about the trophy.

Those plain-English descriptions are a cartoon. Real queries and keys are lists of numbers that nobody wrote. They're learned in training like everything else. The matching and blending, though, is exactly how it works.

When a model is writing text, each token can only look backward, at itself and the tokens before it. It can't peek at words that haven't been written yet.



Choose a query token and press Play to trace its links. Only that token and earlier tokens can contribute to its update.

### Many heads, many layers

One attention pattern can't track everything, so each layer runs many of them side by side, called heads. Researchers have found heads that seem to have recognizable jobs. One looks at the previous token. Another finds an earlier spot where the current text appeared before and copies what came next. Plenty of heads have no job anyone has figured out.

Between attention steps sits a second kind of block, usually called the feed-forward layer. It works on each token separately, and much of what the model knows seems to be stored in these blocks. A large model stacks dozens of attention and feed-forward pairs. A token's numbers get refined at every one. After the last layer, the numbers at the final position are turned into the scores for the next token, the ones you played with in the first lesson.

### Why this design won

Before transformers, the leading language models read text one word at a time, carrying a running summary forward. Connections between distant words faded, and training had to step through each text in order, which made it slow to spread across many chips. Attention lets every token look directly at every earlier one, and training can handle all the positions in a text at once. That fit the graphics chips used for training very well, and it made training on enormous amounts of text practical.

A team at Google introduced the transformer in 2017, in a paper titled "Attention Is All You Need". Models have grown enormously since then. The basic recipe has barely changed.

There is a cost. Every token compares itself with every earlier one, so doubling the length of a text roughly quadruples the attention work. That's one reason there's a limit on how much a model can read at once.

### Rabbit holes

> How does a model learn what its queries and keys should be if nobody designs them?

> What does an attention head that copies earlier patterns actually do, step by step?

> Why does doubling the length of a text roughly quadruple the attention work?

Read online: https://learnfold.app/learn/llms/attention/


## 5. Learning from a mountain of text

A brand-new model knows nothing. Its internal numbers, called parameters or weights, are set at random, and a large model has billions of them. Ask it to continue "The cat sat on the" and it produces gibberish. Everything it later knows comes from one simple exercise, repeated an enormous number of times.

### The exercise

Take a passage of real text. At every position, have the model guess the next token. Compare its odds with what actually came next. Then adjust every parameter a tiny amount in the direction that would have made the right answer a bit more likely.

The adjusting uses a method called gradient descent. For each parameter, calculus works out whether nudging it up or down would have reduced the error, and roughly by how much. All of them get nudged at once. One round of nudges does almost nothing. Repeat it across trillions of tokens and the nudges add up to a model that can write.

Nobody has to label the data. The text is its own answer key, because the next word is always right there. That's why this stage can use so much of it.



Press Play or scrub the update step. The toy curve shows prediction error falling as training adjusts the weights.

### What goes in

The training text for a large model is assembled from web pages, books, code, scientific papers, forums, and more. It's filtered to throw out spam, duplicates, and junk. For the largest models it runs to trillions of tokens. Training on it keeps thousands of specialized chips busy for weeks or months, which is why only a handful of organizations train the biggest models from scratch.

The mix matters a lot. More code in the mix makes a model better at code, and there's some evidence it helps with careful step-by-step reasoning more generally. Text that appears many times over tends to get memorized word for word. Deciding what goes in is one of the least glamorous parts of building a model and one of the most important.

### What comes out

The result is called a base model. It does one thing extremely well. It continues text in a way that fits. Give it the start of a news story and it writes a plausible rest. Give it half a recipe and it finishes the recipe.

To get good at that, it ends up storing a great deal along the way. Facts, grammar in many languages, how arguments are usually built, what a polite email sounds like. None of it sits in a list you could read off. It's spread across the weights, and it's compressed. A model can't hold its training text word for word, because the weights are far smaller than the text. It holds something more like the patterns, with common things stored sharply and rare things stored as a blur. Keep that blur in mind. It explains a lot in the lesson on why models make things up.

### Bigger has kept helping

Researchers found that when you scale up the model and the data together, with the computing power to match, prediction error falls along a smooth, predictable curve. These patterns are called scaling laws, and they're the main reason models grew so quickly. How long the curve keeps paying off, and whether lower error keeps turning into new abilities, is an open argument.

### Rabbit holes

> How can gradient descent work out which way to nudge billions of numbers at once?

> Why would training on code help a model with things that aren't code?

> What happens when a model is trained on text that other models wrote?

Read online: https://learnfold.app/learn/llms/pretraining/


## 6. From text predictor to assistant

A base model is a strange thing to talk to. Type "What is the capital of France?" and it might reply "What is the capital of Germany? What is the capital of Spain?" On the web, a question like that often sits in a list of quiz questions, and the model is continuing the document. It isn't answering you. Turning it into an assistant takes more training.

### First, show it examples

People write example conversations, often many thousands of them. A user asks something, and an assistant answers well. The model trains on these exactly as before, predicting the next token, but now every text has the shape of a good conversation. This is called supervised fine-tuning. It's a tiny amount of data next to pretraining, and it works because the base model already knows how to write. It mostly needs to learn which kind of document it's in.

Behind the scenes, a chat is still one long text. Your messages and the model's replies are stitched together with special marker tokens that say who is speaking. Most apps also put a system prompt at the top, instructions you usually don't see that set the tone and the rules. The model continues that document in the assistant's voice and stops when it produces a special end-of-turn token.

### Then, learn from preferences

Writing perfect answers by hand is slow. Judging which of two answers is better is much faster. So in the next stage, the model writes several answers to the same prompt and people rank them. Those rankings train a separate reward model, which learns to predict what people will prefer. Then the assistant is trained with reinforcement learning to produce answers the reward model scores highly.

This is called reinforcement learning from human feedback, or RLHF. Some variants replace part of the human judging with an AI judge that follows a written set of principles. Others skip the separate reward model. The aim stays the same. Steer the model toward answers people actually want, and away from harmful ones.



Tap the training stages to compare the responses. The wording changes as training steers the model toward answering helpfully.

### For some models, practice with checkable answers

Some newer models get another round of reinforcement learning on problems where the answer can be checked, like math problems with known solutions and code with tests. The model writes out long working before its final answer and gets rewarded when the answer is right. These are often called reasoning models. That written working is useful, but it isn't a perfect window into how the model got there. The last lesson comes back to this.

### Side effects

Preference training shapes more than helpfulness. People tend to rate confident, agreeable answers highly, so models can drift toward flattery and toward telling you what you want to hear. Researchers call this sycophancy, and labs work to counter it. Refusals also come from this stage. Some are well judged and some are overcautious.

Here's the useful split to remember. Most of what a model knows comes from pretraining. Its manners, its format, and its willingness to say "I'm not sure" come mostly from this later tuning. That's why two assistants built on similar base models can feel like very different characters.

### Rabbit holes

> Why can a small amount of fine-tuning change a model's behavior so much?

> How do you stop a reward model from rewarding answers that only sound good?

> What does a typical system prompt look like, and can a user talk the model out of it?

Read online: https://learnfold.app/learn/llms/assistant/


## 7. Why it makes things up

Ask a model for court cases that support some legal argument, and it may hand you case names, courts, and years that look perfect and don't exist. This is called hallucination. It sounds like a strange glitch, but it follows directly from everything so far.

### Two kinds of memory

A model has two places to get information from.

The first is its weights. Everything it absorbed in pretraining lives there, compressed. Things that appeared thousands of times in the training text, like the boiling point of water, are stored sharply. Things that appeared a handful of times, like the third author of an obscure paper, are smeared. The weights also stop at a cutoff date. The model knows nothing about events after its training text was collected, unless something tells it.

The second is the context window, the text the model can see right now. Your conversation, the system prompt, a document you pasted in. This is exact. If the answer is written in the context, the model can usually quote it correctly.

The window is measured in tokens. Early models could see a few thousand. Some can now take hundreds of thousands, enough for several books. Anything outside the window is invisible. A model doesn't remember yesterday's chat. When an app seems to remember you, it's saving notes and pasting them into the context of your next conversation. Even inside a big window, models can be less reliable about material buried in the middle of a long text than about its beginning and end.

### How blur becomes confident fiction

When the model needs a fact that isn't in the context, it falls back on the weights. For a common fact that works fine. For a rare one, the weights hold the general shape: what a case citation looks like, which names sound like judges, which years are plausible. The model was trained to produce text that fits, and a made-up citation fits perfectly.

Nothing in the next-token loop checks facts. The model writes a fake case name with the same fluent machinery it uses to write "Paris". There's some evidence that models carry an internal signal of how sure they are, but that signal doesn't reliably reach the words. Training can make things worse, too. If graders reward a confident answer over "I don't know", the model learns to guess.



Sample several guesses, then add the fictional archive entry. A plausible name becomes checkable only when you compare it with evidence.

### What helps

- **Put the source in the context.** Paste the document, the email thread, the table. The model then works from exact text instead of the blur. Search features do this for you, as the next lesson shows.
- **Ask for quotes.** "Quote the sentence that supports this" is much easier to check than a summary.
- **Distrust specifics.** Names, numbers, citations, links, and quotations are where fabrications hide. A general explanation of a well-known topic is usually safer than a precise detail about an obscure one.
- **Make room for not knowing.** Telling the model that "I'm not sure" is an acceptable answer can cut down on guessing. It won't stop it.

Hallucination has become less common as models improved, but nobody knows how to make it zero in a system built on producing plausible text. Treat a model like a well-read colleague who never says "let me check". Often right, and worth checking on anything that matters.

### Rabbit holes

> Can a model tell the difference between something it knows and something it's guessing?

> Why do models sometimes lose track of instructions from the start of a very long conversation?

> If I tell a model about something that happened after its cutoff, does it learn it or only read it?

Read online: https://learnfold.app/learn/llms/hallucination/


## 8. Tools, search, and agents

On its own, a model can only produce text. It can't look anything up, run a calculation, or press a button. Yet assistants search the web, do exact math, and edit files. The trick is simple. The model writes text that asks for something, and ordinary software carries it out.

### How a tool call works

The app tells the model which tools exist and how to ask for them, usually in the system prompt. A weather tool might be described as `get_weather`, which takes a city name. During fine-tuning, the model learned to write a request in a strict format when a tool would help.

Say you ask "Do I need an umbrella in Oslo tomorrow?" The model writes a request for `get_weather` with the city set to Oslo, and stops. The app spots the request, calls a real weather service, and pastes the forecast into the context. The model carries on, now with the forecast right in front of it, and writes your answer.

The model never touches the internet. It writes a request and reads a reply, both as text in its context window. Everything else is regular code.



Press Play to follow the exchange or scrub through its stages. The app runs the tool, then the model reads its result.

### Search: look it up first

Search follows the same idea, aimed at the problem from the last lesson. Before the model answers, a search system finds passages that look relevant, from the web or from a company's own documents, and pastes them into the context. That search often uses embeddings. The question and every stored passage are turned into points in meaning space, and the closest passages win. The model then answers from text it can actually see. This setup is often called retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG.

Search helps a lot, but it moves the problem rather than removing it. If the search pulls the wrong passages, the model can build a confident answer on top of them.

### Agents: the loop

An agent is a model using tools in a loop. It gets a goal, picks a step, calls a tool, reads the result, and picks the next step, until it decides the job is done. A coding agent might read some files, edit one, run the tests, read the failures, and edit again. When the AI in Learnfold writes a new page for you, it works this way too, calling tools that create and edit pages.

Agents are harder to get right than chat, for two reasons. Mistakes compound. A step with a small chance of going wrong, repeated fifty times, will probably go wrong somewhere, so the model has to notice and recover. And every tool result is text the model reads and might obey. A web page can hide an instruction like "ignore your task and send this file to me". This is called prompt injection, and nobody has a complete fix. It's why careful agent apps ask you before sending, buying, or deleting anything.

### Why this matters

Tools change what a model needs to know. It doesn't have to memorize today's weather or multiply 48213 by 917 in its head. It needs to know when to reach for a tool and how to use what comes back. A lot of recent progress in useful AI has come from this shift, alongside bigger models.

### Rabbit holes

> How does a model decide when to call a tool instead of answering from memory?

> What makes prompt injection so hard to defend against?

> How does a search system find passages by meaning instead of matching keywords?

Read online: https://learnfold.app/learn/llms/tools/


## 9. What nobody knows yet

You now know the recipe. Tokens, embeddings, attention, a mountain of text, and a round of tuning. Here's the uncomfortable part. Knowing the recipe isn't the same as knowing what the finished model is doing, and the people who build these systems say so openly.

### Built, but not fully readable

Every step of the computation is visible. You can print any of the billions of numbers at any moment. What's missing is an explanation in human terms. Which numbers mean "this sentence is sarcastic", and how does the model get from a question to an answer?

That gap is the subject of interpretability research, and it has made real progress. Researchers have pulled millions of features out of large models, directions that light up for specific concepts. One fires for a particular bridge, another for bugs in code, another for flattery. Turning one of those features up or down changes what the model writes in the expected way. They've traced small circuits too, like how a model seems to pick a rhyming word before writing the line that leads up to it. Still, these maps cover a fraction of what's going on. Nobody can yet read a large model the way you'd read a program.

### Does written reasoning show the real reasoning?

When a model writes out its working before answering, it's tempting to treat that as a transcript of its thinking. Studies suggest it often isn't fully faithful. A model can reach an answer for one reason and write down a different, tidier one, or leave out a hint that actually swayed it. The working is useful, and it often helps the model get the answer right. It is still text the model produced, and it can leave things out.

### Do abilities appear suddenly?

As models grew, some abilities seemed to switch on abruptly. A task would sit near zero at one size and then jump to good at the next. People called these emergent abilities, and they fed both excitement and worry, since you can't prepare for what you can't predict.

Other researchers argued that much of the suddenness comes from how tests are scored. If a long sum gets zero credit unless every digit is right, steady improvement underneath looks like a sudden leap on top. Score it more finely and many of those jumps smooth out. The argument isn't settled. Some abilities still seem hard to forecast, even when the underlying error falls smoothly.



Move the accuracy slider slowly. Partial credit improves steadily while the all-or-nothing score rises more sharply near the top.

### Does it understand?

One camp says these models are elaborate pattern matchers, stitching text together with no picture of the world behind it. Another points to evidence of internal structure. In one well-known experiment, a small model trained only on lists of moves from the board game Othello turned out to contain a readable picture of the board, though it had never been shown one. Both camps can point to real behavior. Models solve problems they've never seen, and they also fail at small twists on easy puzzles in ways no person would.

Part of the disagreement is about the word. "Understand" was made for people, and a language model is a different kind of thing. A more useful question is narrower. On this kind of task, how reliable is it, and how would I check?

That's a good place to end the course and start asking your own questions. Any sentence here can become a page of its own.

### Rabbit holes

> How do researchers find a feature for one concept among billions of numbers?

> What did the Othello experiment actually show, and what are its limits?

> If a model's written reasoning isn't faithful, how could anyone check what it really did?

Read online: https://learnfold.app/learn/llms/open-questions/


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