It's taken probably every transcript of every Seinfeld episode. So it kind of knows what George would say or can suppose, you know, the statistical regularities that come from all of that corpus. Because it will have ingested kind of every Wes Anderson script. And one of the things I've been thinking about here is comparing all the stuff around image generation that happened a couple of weeks ago with now the text generation that we sort of perceived the accuracy differently.
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on analyst Benedict Evans to talk about Chat GPT and machine learning (5:00), how it gets things wrong (10:00), the “fluent bullshit” problem (12:00), whether this is a genuine breakthrough moment (15:20), what this means for humans (18:25), “prompt engineering” (23:00), humans as curators rather than creators (26:40), tech’s mid-life crisis (27:45), the future of “search” (32:10), using AI do make “no-code” software (35:00), where we go from here (39:00), and the illusion of creativity (42:45).
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