Human and Artificial General Intelligence Arises from Next Token Prediction

Rachel Draelos, MD, PhD
Towards Data Science
16 min readApr 28, 2024

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What if human intelligence derives from successful next token prediction, and what if next token prediction is a sufficient objective function for emergence of artificial general intelligence?

This post frames and explores the hypothesis that general intelligence arises when a learning system becomes very good at next token prediction…

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