How to Generate Believable Text With a Program

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The program is actually simple. The intelligence you see and an answer is all coming at this point from the input text themselves. If we want a chatbot, we can't just have our program generate believable text. That's how you generate believable text with a program. This will spit out very believable text. It's actually not even that hard to implement in my New Yorker article. As I showed in the article, this thing generated very good Gothic text. But the program is just looking for words, gathering votes, selecting, outputting, blindly, again and again and again.

Are new AI technologies like ChatGPT about to massively disrupt our world? Drawing from his recent New Yorker article on the topic, Cal explains exactly how programs like ChatGPT work, and uses this knowledge to explain why we can calm our fears about this new technology.

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Today’s Deep Question: How does ChatGPT work? (And should we worry about it?) [11:24]

- Is there anything AI won’t do better than humans? [57:30]

- How will AI end up disrupting knowledge work? [1:02:27]

- Should I quit web development before AI eliminates the industry? [1:07:32]

- Will AI create mass job loss in the next five years? [1:11:52]

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newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/what-kind-of-mind-does-chatgpt-have

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