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I'm starting to get the feeling that behind "AI" it's pretty much just an RNG with a bunch of constraints applied to its output. The constraints restrict the fi

I'm starting to get the feeling that behind "AI" it's pretty much just an RNG with a bunch of constraints applied to its output. The constraints restrict the final output to something plausible sounding based on the training set -- but that's it. It's like those generators we used to see in the early internet -- "Seinfeld Joke Generator" or "Marketing Babble Generator" or "Postmodern Paper Generator" -- except layers upon layers of statistics are used to pick the words. And yeah, it's interesting and fun, but not a reliable source of actual information.

technothrasher 4y ago
It's not random at its core. It's a neural network picking the most statistically likely words to come next based on the previous content. Where the randomness does come in is that it will sometimes randomly not pick the most statistically likely output, but maybe the second, or third, or seventh most statistically likely. This keeps it from getting stuck in a rut and just repeating itself endlessly, although you can still see it do that behavior to some degree.