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Did Artificial Intelligence Just Get Too Smart?

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How Did Chat GPT Come to Be?

The development of chat GPT really began in 2017 when researchers from Google came out with this paper that described something new they had built called a transformer model. The basic thing they discovered was there was a new kind of AI system that you could train by just throwing a huge amount of data at it. So if you typed in old McDonald had a farm, it would spit back EIAO. That's very different from what happens when you search for something on Google.

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