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"It Looks the Answers Up in a Database"

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A language model consults no database at answer time — no lookup exists, and both its unprecedented reach and its confident misses follow from prediction, not retrieval.

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Systems that bolt on live document search do exist — a different machine wrapped around this one, and the wrapping needs its own audit.

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The belief survives because retrieval is how every earlier answering machine worked.

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