How AI Knows Contextual Meaning

By Leo Gura - February 25, 2025

This is one of the best technical explanations of the architecture of linguistic contextual meaning and abstraction.

If you want to know how AI/LLMs actually know all the nuances of what words mean, watch this. This isn’t just technical, it has some profound insights about how mind works, how context works, how abstraction works, how meaning works.

When people say that AI is just predicting the next word or just an advanced spellchecker or word calculator, they’re misunderstanding how profound the structure of AI is. It’s doing a lot more than “just” predicting words. This structure of abstraction and contextualization is one of the most important scientific and engineering breakthroughs in human history, on par with E=mc2 or calculus. People are not in awe of this discovery enough. Mankind has cracked the mysterious mechanism of abstraction. That’s as important as discovering electricity and it happened under the radar just a few years ago such that people are still playing catch-up.

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