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This is the network working as designed.

I mean, if you wrote an autocomplete system for written english and asked it to complete the sentence "O Romeo, Romeo" what would you expect to happen?

You'd expect it to complete to "O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?" - a very famous quote.

How else could you produce the single right output for that unique input, other than memorising and regurgitating?

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> You'd expect it to complete to "O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?" - a very famous quote.

What about completing it to "O Romeo, Romeo, brave Mercutio is dead", based on the context, as advertised?

Right, but the demonstration gave zero context and came up with the original function. It would have been interesting if it were instructed to produce the function in Haskell or some other programming model.

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