ChatGPT with Rob Miles - Computerphile
Computerphile. A long, calm sit-down with AI-safety researcher Rob Miles on why a model that's trained to predict plausible text will always, structurally, sometimes invent facts. Recorded in early 2023, but the underlying mechanism it explains hasn't changed and the framing is still the cleanest way to internalise "it's a fluency engine, not a truth engine."
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A long, calm sit-down with AI-safety researcher Rob Miles on why a model that's trained to predict plausible text will always, structurally, sometimes invent facts.
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