The Differences Between a Calculator and an AI

A calculator is essentially an automated lookup table. AIs construct their algorithm themselves by generalizing a large amount of data. Neither the calculator nor the chatbot ever produces a new explanation. You can ask it for an explanation, but all it's doing is distilling explanations that already exist.

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