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How AI works

What AI is and how it answers

  • What AI is and is not

    Can say what AI is, and what it is not

    About 8 minutes, or 14 with the Deep layers

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    Can explain how a chatbot writes one likely word at a time

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Where next

Transformer Explainer, from Georgia Tech's Polo Club

A free web page that runs a small real language model (GPT-2) in your browser, with its own temperature control. It is a different website. Before it runs, it downloads at least 650 MB. Type nothing private there.