Quotes About ChatGPT

This short book is an attempt to explain from first principles how and why ChatGPT works. In some ways it's a story about technology. But it's also a story about science.

The first thing to explain is that what ChatGPT is always fundamentally trying to do is to produce a "reasonable continuation" of whatever text it's got so far, where by "reasonable" we mean "what one might expect someone to write after seeing what people have written on billions of webpages, etc." So