Contents › Chapter 4 One character at a time
If the reel stops somewhere else, you get a different story
View in 3DThis time the starting text, the AI and the temperature are all the same. Only the places where the reel stops are different. Change one character, and every percent after it changes. So you get a completely different story.
Text written by the AI: Once upon a time. They said they heard him. ⏎ ⏎ The work ti
Why?This is also why a chatbot gives a slightly different answer when you ask the same question twice.
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A small AI (a character-level language model with 62,652 dials) was really trained on 40 fairy tales and fables retold for this project (about 376,021 characters), and every number here was calculated by that AI. It is a tiny model for learning; real chatbots are far bigger.