the.com/ai chatbots
autocomplete wearing a trenchcoat, pretending to be your friend.
means software that predicts the next plausible word so convincingly it feels like conversation.
from traces to eliza in 1966, a script that mimicked a therapist by reflecting your words back — people confided in it anyway, proving the trick barely needed to be good to work.
eliza effectusers bonded with a program that just paraphrased them
no real memorymost forget you the instant the chat ends
confidently wrongcan invent facts with zero hesitation, called hallucination
scale jumpgpt-3 to gpt-4 added roughly 1000x more training compute