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by wimpypistol 2144 days ago
I was similarly surprised, but it's true. The original text is essentially the exact same (probably a 99.9% overlap) with the exception of a few spelling mistakes or grammar errors. My editing was about as much as you'd get from Microsoft Word, if that.
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So you're telling me now the big challenge for AI is no longer making sense, it's spelling and grammar? I don't get it.
This is a word predictor fed on billions of tokens of text. Because it has been trained on human writing, it makes characteristically human mistakes (including spelling, grammar, and even some phonetic errors).