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Ep. 244: Thoughts on ChatGPT

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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How to Generate Believable Text With a Program

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.

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