4 Apr 2023, 16:48

@bear_necessities said in AI Megathread:

I have no idea how AI works except it’s clearly magic.

The current incarnation of ChatGPT is effectively a big autocomplete and pattern matching engine.

So if you ask it who is Shard from Arx, it examines all the text it knows about Shard (such as the Arx wiki pages) and then basically does: “Shard is <what is most likely to come next>.”

If you ask it to compare Shard and Sydney, it looks up all the comparative essays it has (from various websites) and knows that the format is something like “Shard and Sydney are <what is most likely to come next>”

Of course it’s more complicated than that, but it’s really the same principle as when you type in your phone “Sorry I’m…” it’s more likely to guess “running late” than it is to guess “stuck in a 6 car pileup because a truck full of wildebeasts stalled up ahead”. Because statistics.