The statue is the context

When you think of something 5 minutes after you need it...

Just got off the daily live and

(hope that's the right tag!) and I were having a discussion about the taking away of information from LLMs and whether that means to add or remove context.

I gave the analogy of Michelangelo's story, where somebody asks him how he carves this block of marble into this beautiful statue. Michelangelo replies that the statue was already there. He's just removing everything that was not the statue.

In the context of AI prompting the statue is the context that we are applying to some of the knowledge that the AI systems have.

I think that makes more sense.

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