A recent essay proposes that the core of a transformer-based language model, such as ChatGPT or Gemini, is not the entire program or its interface, but specifically the "forward pass." This is the computational step where input data is processed through dense, complex calculations to generate probabilities for the next token. The author argues that this distinct computational phase, which is largely opaque and operates in parallel, represents the true locus of the model's 'being,' distinct from the surrounding code that manages input and output. AI
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