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How AI systems actually work, explained without maths and without brain metaphors. Start here if the jargon has been putting you off.
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What you should never paste into a chatbot
A chat box looks like a notebook and behaves like a form you're submitting to a company. Four kinds of thing should never go into it, and each app has one switch that takes two minutes to find.
RAG is an open-book exam for AI
A model on its own answers from memory, which is why it guesses. RAG is the trick of finding the right page and putting it on the desk before it answers, and it fails in the same ways an open-book exam does.
What is actually inside ChatGPT
It isn't searching the internet and it isn't a database of answers somebody typed in. An AI model is a very large pile of numbers that got nudged, one hair at a time, until they were good at guessing what comes next.
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