AI can give me a song about cheeseburgers in the style of Beyonce. Can write an essay for a future news event and connect some cultural references that I didn't even make explicit. It's built on principles of machine learning, which is all about learning from past examples. But its knowledge is probabilistic rather than deterministic. So it only knows the probability that the next word will follow will be the one you want.
Between chatbots and image generators, artificial intelligence has gotten scary good lately. The Verge’s James Vincent explains what’s behind the latest wave of AI-powered creations.
This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Efim Shapiro with help from Paul Robert Mounsey and additional music by Brandon McFarland, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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