[gabelschlager]

Even you are still personifying the model. There is no motivation. An input sentence is multiplied by a series of weights and the resulting output vector transformed back into a text.

At the end of the day, it's a program like any other. There are no emotions or a consciousness.

[valine]

That's why I put "motivation" in quotes. Also I was talking about training, where you compute a cost function and back propagate error. This is somewhat analogous to "motivation".