Four elephants in a room with chatbots

Language processing in humans and computers: Part 2

Tidying up the zoo in the morning

The first elephant in the room: The Web

Just like search engines, language models process data scraped from the web. Both are built on top of web crawlers. Chatbots are children of the Web, not of expert systems.

A search engine is an interface of a source index sorted by reputation. A chatbot is an interface of a language model extrapolating from the sources. Google …

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