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It’s a lossy text compression technique. It’s clever applied statistics. Basically an advanced association rules algorithm which has been around for decades but modified to consider order and relative positions.

There is no understanding, regardless of the wants of all the capital investors in this domain.



I don't care if it can "understand" anything, as long as I can use it to achieve useful things.


“useful things“ like poorly drawing birds on bikes? ;)

(I have much respect for what you have done and are currently doing, but you did walk right into that one)


The pelican on a bicycle is a very useful test.


Yeah what if you need a drawing of a pelican on a bicycle


It’s a lossy text compression technique.

That is a much, much bigger deal than you make it sound like.

Compression may, in fact, be all we need. For that matter, it may be all there is.




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