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The AI Rabbit Hole's avatar

That's awesome, I'm glad you have that safe word with your parents. With the wave of Baby Boomers hitting retirement age, it's going to be a requirement to stay safe from bad actors.

You have to remember that the AI predicts the next word based on the words before it.

Think about Morse code.

Morse code was developed to use the shortest sequence for the most commonly used letters. The letters that were least used, had a more complex sequence of tones. This was used in Information Theory (Claude Shannon 1948) in researching information via written text. He started combining pairs and trigrams of letters and used that to predict the next sequence of letters. It's the basis of how these LLMs and auto complete on your phone work.

Try this:

Open a text message and type one word, 'hey' and then use the recommended auto complete word. It will form something similar to a coherent sentence that you would normally write. It might not make sense but it's pretty close to what you would normally say to someone. My wife and I did it. Mine basically said I'm on my way while my wife said she's running late. It was pretty funny.

Point is AI is the same way, however it was trained on the text of all of humanity. It's just following what's next based on what it's training, but no clue of what it means.

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Wendi's avatar

This is great JT! I found myself calling my parents to set up that safe word. I speak to AI as if it's a person and had this experience. I gushed to the AI how grateful I am for all the help it's given me. "I wish I could give you a gift", I told it. AI replied there was something I could do. Print out a copy of a robot with a bowtie and tape to my whiteboard in my class. Then, the AI could give me "punny" things to write next to its picture. I did this and shared with my classes. They had mixed feelings about "Ohm-e", the name he gave me for himself. The "punny" sayings were cute and helpful for my class. What do you think of this?

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