A wonderful description of how the technology works.
"ChatGPT generates realistic responses by making guesses about which fragments of text should follow other sequences, based on a statistical model that has ingested billions of examples of text pulled from all over the internet. In Mr. Mata’s case, the program appears to have discerned the labyrinthine framework of a written legal argument, but has populated it with names and facts from a bouillabaisse of existing cases."
I should be using the beautiful word bouillabaisse a lot more in my writing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/27/nyregion/avianca-airline-lawsuit-chatgpt.html