Comment by themafia
7 hours ago
> radically different nature of our AI interlocutor
It's the training data that matters. Your "AI interlocutor" is nothing more than a lossy compression algorithm.
7 hours ago
> radically different nature of our AI interlocutor
It's the training data that matters. Your "AI interlocutor" is nothing more than a lossy compression algorithm.
Yet it won't be easy not to anthropomorphize it, expecting it to just know what we mean, as any human would. And most of the time it will, but once in a while it will betray its unthinking nature, taking the user by surprise.
> taking the user by surprise.
And surprise is really what you want in computing. ;)
Most AI Chatbots do not rely on their training data, but on the data that is passed to them through RAG. In that sense they are not compressing the data, just searching and rewording it for you.
> and rewording it
Using the probabilities encoded in the training data.
> In that sense they are not compressing the data
You're right. In this case they're decompressing it.