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In a bizarre news conference, Steve Smith went through a rehearsed answer to a pre-arranged question about Panesar's appearance on Mastermind, all in response to Monty's comments on the Sandpapergate scandal.
From BBC
But the White House didn’t have an answer to a question about the potential scale of financial support for the oil industry.
From Barron's
But the White House didn’t have an answer to a question about the potential scale of financial support for the oil industry.
From Barron's
The group’s challenge, she explained in an interview, was to figure out how to revamp the search system to quickly present a clear answer to a question when the answer wasn’t contained on a single webpage.
“Instead, it gives something that sounds like an answer to the question. That is very different from saying something that is accurate. What they have learned is not facts about the world but instead a probability distribution of what word is most likely to come next given the question and the words so far produced in response. Thus the results of using them, uncaged, is lots and lots of confabulations that sound like real things, whether they are or not.”
From Los Angeles Times
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