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It's because of the size of the training data, I would say. If you train something on the entire internet it will "effectively" recognise text.
My main bugbear with people calling LLMs useless is that, even though they kinda are in a lot of ways, they had a lot of the same social effect as real AI would.
Also that is actually fucking hilarious. Of course it's british.
@starfrost @bitsavers This parrot isn't an LLM though, is it?
I'd say that it's done a marvellous job of detecting the pictorial patterns of what we humans recognise as text, and specifically as English text. This is the sort of thing that I used to do when I was a kid, learning to identify languages from fragments without being able to say what my clues were. I remember being amazed that Finnish had no "f".