AI: Is It Out Of Control?

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Jun 8, 2023

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INSIGHT

Scale And Compute Drove The Leap

Generative AI became powerful by scaling massive datasets and compute together.
Engineers and large data volumes unlocked capabilities unseen in earlier, smaller models.

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Chatbots Are Fancy Predictive Text

Chatbots basically predict the next word using learned probabilities from huge text corpora.
Human feedback (thumbs up/down) refines outputs and makes models feel more conversational.

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Human Labor Powers Chatbot Charm

Much of the conversational polish comes from millions of hours of human labor improving model responses.
That labor is often underpaid and essential to making chatbots feel human-like.

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