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Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on AI copilots, disagreeing with OpenAI, and Sydney making a comeback

Decoder with Nilay Patel

CHAPTER

The Importance of Follow-Up Meetings

The way transformers work is it just sort of pick something at random and it gives you the completion. Kevin was uh like way off in terms of number of turns in conversation just like outlier so we're like okay well like we're just not going to let people wander down these hallucinatory paths any more. We will limit the number of turns  just sort of force periodic resets and then we did a little bit of tuning in the metaprompt. The problem usually in doing these sorts of changes is like you make the change to fix the problem that's in front of you and you don't know whether you regress on all of the things that you fixed before, he says

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