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A Beginner’s Guide to ChatGPT: How It Works, Why Tech Twitter is Euphoric, and What the Next Challenges Look Like

Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

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The Limitations of GPT

We're one or two steps away from being able to generate full associated press level news recaps and all sorts of stuff that will be really, really difficult to tell apart from what's written by a human. We can keep track of all our verbal ticks as we go here. The thing is though, the photos you never felt like they were actually that realistic. Like every photo I looked at, it's like, okay, so this was generated by a computer and they're not bad, but it sort of seemed like a party trick. Whereas seeing some of the texts that's being written takes my breath away because it's not quite there yet.

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