What AI Teaches Us About Good Writing

Such a thing is compelling not because it offers  answers  in the form of text, but because it makes it possible to play text—all the text, almost—like an instrument.

That outcome could be revelatory! But a huge obstacle stands in the way of achieving it: people, who don’t know what the hell to make of LLMs, ChatGPT, and all the other gene

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What’s ChatGPT really bad at? Being counterintuitive and surprising us. Large language models (LLMs) are trained on the mass output of humanity to optimize for what is expected. As a result, ChatGPT routinely let’s us down when it comes to getting something we didn’t expect. If you start paying attention to the music, books, movies, speeches, essay... See more