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Comment Re: where have all the customers gone (Score 5, Interesting) 105

Where did all the grammar go? Why does it say "it's the largest companies" when obviously they meant company.

AI helpers do not understand language, but instead perform statistical word completion (in the literature, this is called "generative modelling").

The idea goes back at least to Claude Shannon's papers on communication theory from the 1950s. This page has a link to his 1948 paper. A particularly illuminating example is on p.7, Section 3.

Your example exhibits short term trigram learning. The completion of 3-word phrases is consistent, but the 4-word completion is obviously wrong.

Comment Re:Sometimes, technology also changes the culture (Score 1) 244

Sorry, your explanation is a myth. Or rather, it is only the theory. In practice, right handers do smear the text too. Perhaps you're too young to remember the good old days before everyone's handwriting atrophied because of keyboard usage. Or perhaps you've only seen people use quick drying marker tips.

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