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2 weeks agoThe Greatest Illusion on Earth
At its core (dare I say heart), AI is a machine of probability. Word by word, it predicts what is most likely to come next. This continuation is dressed up as conversation, but it isn't cognition. It is a statistical trick that feels more and more like thought. Training reinforces the trick through what's called a loss function. But this isn't a pursuit of truth. It measures how well a sequence of words matches the patterns of human language.
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