What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work? by Stephen Wolfram

Act II — A Seismic Shock
Written By Paul Verhagen

What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work? (2023)

Fully centered on giving a technical account of modern transformers. It avoids most math, but does give an in-depth account of the inner operations of chatbots. A useful discipline against both the mystification and the dismissal that dominate public debate, and self-contained enough to need no background.

Read it asking: Does knowing the mechanism make you more or less comfortable delegating judgment to it?

Paul Verhagen
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