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The important part is in the parens at the end of course:

> There can be a temptation to learn lots of fancy words and to use them in fancy sentences without being able to say precisely what you mean. You should feel free to do that, but you should always feel a pang of guilt when you do.

GPT - as far as we know - feels no guilt pangs whatsoever.



Surely there is a confidence score (perhaps hidden) that could be used to emulate such a sense of guilt. Maybe next time.


'Temperature' would probably already be close, which controls how much GPT takes low probability (could reasonably be interpreted as confidence?) into account.




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