The AI That Writes One Character at a Time
Contents › Chapter 4 One character at a time
A whole story
Writing on, up to 60 characters
View in 3DOne character at a time, to the end
Guess, pick, add. Repeat, and it writes up to 60 characters. This is the very text you saw at the start. Every space, every period and every letter of every word was picked one character at a time.
Text written by the AI: Once upon a time. ⏎ ⏎ He was down up began to his hands. He walked out he did n
Why?Nobody taught this AI grammar. As you saw in Chapter 2, this is what came from practicing "guess the next character" on 40 fairy tales.
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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.