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Episode 255: Beloved Child of the House (Susanna Clarke's "Piranesi")

Very Bad Wizards

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat: I think a little moron canny, at least in my experience of it. The way these language learning models work is that they're literally just trying to predict the next word from the previous word. It's like if you ever played the game of auto completing on your text messages,. You know, you could make it say some really weird things. And so, it could be that that ends up being really dangerous and bad. But, but I find it harder to get into that mindset when I can see just see so clearly what happened.

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