What is a #generativeAI like #chatGPT doing?

/It is finding the most statistically probable word in a string of words that answers the prompt you've provided/. Rinse repeat.

AI doesn't understand anything.  AI hallucination is a thing (that's a topic by itself). There's no guaranteeing output is factual without curating the data, or restricting source documents the AI is trained on.

I'm attending a tech conference (TechXchange). As a SF novelist by avocation, I'm interested in what #AI is and isn't—at the present time.  I'm  learning #ai isn't going to go Forbin Project, HAL 9000, or #Skynet any time soon. As Jessica Rabbit would say, "I'm not drawn that way." 
#AI it is being built into things. It's a MAJOR focus at IBM. One could assume #AI is built into military drones.

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