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The speaker says language models generate outputs by taking tokens from a density through greedy sampling.
Tim Scarfe · Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick · 21 Sept 2026
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“we just do greedy sampling.”
“So we've got this density and we just take the, you know, we just take a token,”Play from 45:01Report a misattribution
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