No one yet knows how ChatGPT and its artificial-intelligence cousins will transform the world, and one reason is that no one really knows what goes on inside them. Some of these systems ...

Instead, you write a lossy algorithm that identifies statistical regularities in the text and stores them in a specialized file format.

It looks like algorithms can write academic papers about themselves now, which begs the question — how long until human writers are obsolete?

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