AI: “An Exponential Disruption” with Kate Crawford (2023)
Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast
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The Principle of Rule-Based Learning in Natural Language Processing
This statistical turn is such an important conceptual point. Let's just say, if someone says, thanks, what's likely to be the next word? And you see this in the Gmail autocomplete? Yep. It's just that thanks so much goes together a lot. So when you put in thanks, it's like pretty good chance it's going to be so much. That general principle of if you run enough data and you get enough probabilistic connections between this and that word at scale is how you get Ulysses S. Grant doing a joke about Vicksburg.
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