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What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram

It turns out that it’s possible to construct such a function. Later, we’ll talk about how such a function can be constructed, and the idea of neural nets. And the nontrivial scientific fact is that for an image-recognition task like this we now basically know how to construct functions that do this.

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Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…

Stephen Wolfram

One of the notable features of a system like ChatGPT is that it isn’t constructed in an “understand-every-step” traditional engineering way. There’s one category that in many ways seems surprising to still be “with us”: jobs that involve lots of mechanical manipulation, like construction, fulfillment, food preparation, etc.

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