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Why We Are Here => Hardware & Technology => Topic started by: ergophobe on June 08, 2022, 07:29:07 PM

Title: Economist podcast on AI partially written with AI
Post by: ergophobe on June 08, 2022, 07:29:07 PM

Web version of newslettter (https://view.e.economist.com/?qs=368b0ac160b7a5749c122dc2ae862c01d2791a5b9ac1df87d8595febfee007f6ab82862c1814da43a8750cca519ed08397cd5e9c97f3adad051d6044c355195b69d712c9865b0d6ea399398856348451)

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I asked Mina Lee, a PhD candidate in computer science at Stanford University, to build an “EconoBot”, a digital writing buddy, upon which I could call while penning this article...

EconoBot proved to be quite useful, particularly when it was asked to finish a sentence...

When asked to finish an entire paragraph, however, EconoBot’s prose was often considerably less coherent and included some “hallucinations”, in the parlance