Observed arrival · 2026-09-22
ChatJEVs: A Chatbot Without a Language Model
An experimental chat app assembles replies from calibrated decisions rather than a text-generating language model.
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- AI builders curious about non-generative language systems
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- The project reports that batching 253-unit steps takes three to six round trips, about 12× cheaper and 10× faster.
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Generation is governed by a word ceiling, but the page says replies can stop earlier when an <end> candidate wins or a planning unit selects a shorter response. From V1 onward, a Score unit estimates whether the answer should be a phrase or one or two sentences. Candidate words are prioritized by syntactic fit, copied context, and general frequency, leaving the decoder to recover from some upstream mistakes.
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