OpenAI Researcher Questions Next-Token Prediction Difficulty
OpenAI engineer Eric Mitchell questions the difficulty of next-token prediction in a public post.
Eric Mitchell, research engineer at OpenAI co-leading work on models like o1 and GPT-5, posted the line "How hard could it possibly be to predict the next token." Thibault Sottiaux, engineering lead on OpenAI's Codex team, replied with a question mark. The visible exchange consists only of these two posts and shows no additional claims, explanations, or follow-up statements from either person.
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OpenAI Researcher Questions Next-Token Prediction Difficulty
OpenAI engineer Eric Mitchell questions the difficulty of next-token prediction in a public post.
Eric Mitchell, research engineer at OpenAI co-leading work on models like o1 and GPT-5, posted the line "How hard could it possibly be to predict the next token." Thibault Sottiaux, engineering lead on OpenAI's Codex team, replied with a question mark. The visible exchange consists only of these two posts and shows no additional claims, explanations, or follow-up statements from either person.
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