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great_psytoday at 4:12 AM2 repliesview on HN

Can this method be extended to go down to the sentence level ?

In the example it shows how much of the reason for an answer is due to data from Wikipedia. Can it drill down to show paragraph or sentence level that influences the answer ?


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adebayojtoday at 8:24 AM

Great questions. We have several posts in the works that will drill down more into these things. The model was actually designed to answer these questions for any sentence (or group of tokens it generates).

It can tell you which specific text (chunk) in the training data that led to the output the model generated. We plan to show more concrete demos of this capability over the coming weeks.

It can tell you where in the model's representation it learned about science, art, religion etc. And you can trace all of these to either to input context, training data, or model's representations.

rickydrolltoday at 5:39 AM

Your question should be "Can it drill down to show the paragraphs or sentences that influence the answer?"

I believe that the plagiarism complaint about llm models comes from the assumption that there is a one-to-one relationship between training and answers. I think the real and delightfully messier situation is that there is a many-to-one relationship.

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