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OpenAI Changes Everything

OpenAI Changes Everything

ChatGPT is a Confabulator

· 1 h 19 min · Season 1 Episode 19

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Today’s guest offers a compelling perspective on how we might be fundamentally misunderstanding Generative AI tools like ChatGPT. Rather than trying to make it fit existing paradigms such as databases or search engines, he argues that ChatGPT represents something entirely new. It’s best understood as a confabulator—an engine that constructs narratives, or stories, rather than retrieving facts. But this doesn’t mean it’s flawed. In fact, understanding ChatGPT in this way opens up exciting new possibilities for how we can harness its true potential.

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