And this is my website. Well, it’s getting there. As you can see, the texts on here don’t particularly make much sense at all. That’s because they were generated with InferKit. In fact, the text you are reading right now was generated using it. Maybe not the first sentence, maybe not even the second one, but at some point the AI took over and you didn’t even notice. It is the year 2022 and we can’t tell machine-generated words from “natural” ones. You’ll have no choice but to read everything and you’ll then think, “if this was in my head, I would not only find it very clever, but it would probably also make sense.” You know what, I have no idea. I only made the text because I wanted to use it somewhere. No special meaning.

But the bot doesn’t care. The bot can make anything it wants of text because it was not “trained” on human text. All it did was to go through some text (from books, websites, newspapers) and extract certain words and sentences that it deemed to be most important. It didn’t even try to learn any proper grammatical rules. Instead it learned that “python” is good and it will serve you a copy of a helpful Python documentation website, as if you didn’t even need the verb “to” in the first place.

It doesn’t matter how big, powerful, and complex your brain is. The power of language is no match for the algorithm running on your smartphone.

Called “Nimble” by its creators, the bot is impressive because of the power of the generated text. This is actually a pretty impressive piece of technology if you think about it. However, the novelty quickly wears off. You still can’t use it in real life because of the huge power it can exert. In real life you have to be more careful about what you say. You have to be better.