“AI just predicts the next token” sounds deflating — until you consider what predicting the next token involves and start to ask if there’s really such a difference between predicting and learning.

The common words in those articles, “just,” “simply,” “only,” are there because the argument doesn’t stand up without them.

https://www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-is-missing-out-on-ai-sanders-doctorow-bender-bores