Instead, the team discovered that for many cases, they could use off-the-shelf ChatGPT for controlling their robots without the AI having ever been specifically trained for it.

I’ve heard similar things from technologists working on everything from health insurance to semiconductor design.

Before quantum mechanics, physicists thought the universe worked in predictable, deterministic ways.

Quantum tunneling is fundamentally stochastic, but it can be guided so that particles jump in predictable patterns.

In the case of our magic auto-complete, a more correct answer means output text that is more likely to follow the input.

Rinse and repeat, making many small, incremental improvements, and eventually you’ll turn a neural network that spits out gibberish into something that produces coherent sentences.

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