ChatGPT and its brethren are both surprisingly clever and disappointingly dumb. Sure, they can generate pretty poems, solve scientific puzzles, and debug spaghetti code. But we know that they often fabricate, forget, and act like weirdos.
Inflection AI, a company founded by researchers who previously worked on major artificial intelligence projects at Google, OpenAI, and Nvidia, built a bot called Pi that seems to make fewer blunders and be more adept at sociable conversation.
Inflection designed Pi to address some of the problems of today’s chatbots. Programs like ChatGPT use artificial neural networks that try to predict which words should follow a chunk of text, such as
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