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Bouillabaise is not only a delicious sauce, it also carries the meaning of "A confused mixture of disparate elements." Or as the French say: "Mélange confus d’éléments disparates."

Which makes it a wonderful metaphor in chatbot contexts.

www.nytimes.com/2023/05/27/n...

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.

Hence it's apt to call the White House Health Report a bouillabAIse document.

🔗 Originally posted on Bluesky

30 May 2025, 10:01
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