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Large-scale language models can generate natural sentences that sound as if they were written by humans, and in some cases it can be difficult to tell that an AI has written the sentence unless you ...

Unless you’ve been living off-grid for the past few weeks, you’ve probably noticed that the internet is abuzz with excitement about ChatGPT, an AI-based chatbot system that uses natural language ...