• @bisby
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    127 months ago

    I’m not an expert, but it has something to do with full words vs partial words. It also can’t play wordle because it doesn’t have a proper concept of individual letters in that way, its trained to only handle full words

    • @[email protected]
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      37 months ago

      they don’t even handle full words, it’s just arbitrary groups of characters (including space and other stuff like apostrophe afaik) that is represented to the software as indexes on a list, it literally has no clue what language even is, it’s a glorified calculator that happens to work on words.

      • @SpacetimeMachine
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        17 months ago

        I mean, isn’t any program essentially a glorified calculator?

        • @[email protected]
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          17 months ago

          not really, a basic calculator doesn’t tend to have variables and stuff like that

          i say it’s a glorified calculator because it’s just getting input in the form of numbers (again, it has no clue what a language or word is) and spitting back out some numbers that are then reconstructed into words, which is precisely how we use calculators.