If someone asks me "What is your name?" my reply is also simply just guessing what token would go well next in the full text of the conversation.
While the LLMs do have hallucinations, basic stuff like this will never trigger any.
Where I feel the most differences are aren't in the token concept but rather on the deep reasoning (which we don't use as much in my opinion)
> No you "know" what your name is and you retrieve that information.
The LLM has this (literally - most of it is a key value store). It outputs a probability for all possible next tokens.
> It's infinitely different to rolling a dice and picking a name based on what number comes up
The sampling algorithm running the LLM then does this part, and adds randomness to make it more "creative".
So if you want factual information then don't be so random you skip over the right answer.