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lxgrtoday at 12:17 PM1 replyview on HN

At what point does autocomplete stop being "just autocomplete"?

Clearly there's a limit. For example, if an alien autocomplete implementation were to fall out of a wormhole that somehow manages to, say, accurately complete sentences like "S&P 500, <tomorrow's date>:" with tomorrow's actual closing value today, I'd call that something else.


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dgellowtoday at 12:49 PM

You can call it however you want. The point of using the term autocomplete is to make the underlying technology relatable and remove the mystic from it. In any case, your alien autocomplete wouldn’t be an LLM if it can predict the future

> At what point does autocomplete stop being "just autocomplete"?

Every single discussion on the internet is a repeat of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki%27s_wager it seems…

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