That's right, but if you did that compression, it wouldn't be an n-gram anymore. What I'm attempting to get across is that you could model GPT-4 as an equivalent 8000-gram in an abstract sense, but that's not a good mental picture for how it actually functions. Internally, GPT-4 is no more an 8000-gram than Stockfish is a giant lookup table of chess positions. GPT-4 is learning RASP programs, not statistical text correlations.
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That's right, but if you did that compression, it wouldn't be an n-gram anymore. What I'm attempting to get across is that you could model GPT-4 as an equivalent 8000-gram in an abstract sense, but that's not a good mental picture for how it actually functions. Internally, GPT-4 is no more an 8000-gram than Stockfish is a giant lookup table of chess positions. GPT-4 is learning RASP programs, not statistical text correlations.