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How we use the internet is changing fast thanks to the advancement of AI-powered chatbots that can find information and redeliver it as a simple conversation.

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From ChatGPT to Gemini: how AI is rewriting the internet

Big players, including Microsoft, with Copilot, Google, with Gemini, and OpenAI, with GPT-4o, are making AI chatbot technology previously restricted to test labs more accessible to the general public.
How do these large language model (LLM) programs work? OpenAI&rsquo;s GPT-3 told us that AI uses &ldquo;a series of autocomplete-like programs to learn language&rdquo; and that these programs analyze &ldquo;the statistical properties of the language&rdquo; to &ldquo;make educated guesses based on the words you&rsquo;ve typed previously.&rdquo;&nbsp;
Or, in the words of James Vincent, a human person: &ldquo;These AI tools are vast autocomplete systems, trained to predict which word follows the next in any given sentence. As such, they have no hard-coded database of &lsquo;facts&rsquo; to draw on &mdash; just the ability to write plausible-sounding statements. This means they have a tendency to present false information as truth since whether a given sentence sounds plausible does not guarantee its factuality.&rdquo;
But there are so many more pieces to the AI landscape that are coming into play (and so many name changes &mdash; remember when we were talking about Bing and Bard before those tools were rebranded?), but you can be sure to see it all unfold here on The Verge.

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