As I’ve mentioned to y’all in earlier posts, 2023 has been about inhaling, thinking about, and celebrating words – in articles, emails, songs, poetry, posts, quotes, books, and the list goes on and on. I can’t get enough of them. I mean, can you even imagine how many words we haven’t read or heard in our lifetimes? On the On Being podcast, Krista Tippet interviewed Reid Hoffman about AI and Chat GPT-4. He said that Chat GPT-4 was trained on two trillion-plus words, which is more than we could read in HUNDREDS of lifetimes. Whoa. Just thinking about that makes me realize how much we can’t physically take in, but it is also inspiring to think how much more there always is to learn.…
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