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AI Ruined Quora
Fully automated luxury mansplaining.
I don’t remember what question led me there, let alone the quality of the answer, but I’m assuming – given both my interests, and the sort of thing it’s been spamming me with ever since – it was somewhere in the intersection of history, national identity and international relations. In a manner familiar from food writers and also, I fear, this newsletter, answers to big questions will inevitably begin with half-remembered personal anecdotes, possibly dating back to the late 1970s. It’s not: it’s spicy autocomplete.” AI based on machine learning such as the large language models (LLMs) that power Chat GPT, or the Quora Prompt Generator, are very good at pattern matching: predicting the next word in a sentence in a generally compelling manner.
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