Level 8 of 11 · AI Basics lab

How a chatbot picks its next word

Level 8 of 11 in the AI Basics lab: a free AI basics exercise at Intermediate level, which takes about 15 minutes. Watch the next-word chances change with temperature, then test two prompts on twenty recorded cases.

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Goal

Watch the next-word chances change with temperature, then test two prompts on twenty recorded cases.

Done when

The acceptance test marks the skills this level practises.

Next-word chances
Temperature
Testing a prompt

Skills

Next-word chances
Temperature
Testing a prompt

Before you start

Level 7, Words become numbers: tokens and a meaning map, comes first. Do it first if the ideas are new to you.

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Learn what AI is by playing with it: teach a camera, watch a model learn, test it and check it is fair.

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Learn what AI is by playing with it: teach a camera, watch a model learn, test it and check it is fair.

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