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Showerthought: I asked an AI to write a poem about my old dog and it got the color of his collar wrong, which made me realize these tools don't really remember, they just guess.
I typed in 'write a poem about a golden retriever named Buddy with a blue collar' and the thing came back with a verse about a red collar, which was a small detail but it hit me that for all the talk, the AI isn't recalling a fact, it's just putting likely words together based on a huge pile of text it read.
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emma_baker614mo ago
Yeah exactly! It's just doing math on what word usually follows another. So "red collar" probably showed up more in its training than "blue collar" did.
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derek_hill6mo ago
It's not even really guessing though, is it? It's just calculating what word is most probable to come next.
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emmaking6mo ago
Oh man, that reminds me of my autocorrect suggesting "ducking" for the hundredth time. Guess probability isn't perfect.
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