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What the Heck is Chat-GPT Anyway? Understand it in One Weekend.

Brie Sweetly
7 min readApr 29, 2023

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Are you a person who feels a gag reflex when you see the words ‘Chat-GPT’? Someone who is so overwhelmed by the thought that you quickly scroll past those words until you can find the next baby announcement (the kind with multiple pairs of shoes, including adorable, infant-sized Converse All-Stars) or the next vid of a cat smacking things off a table?

Well, a lot of folks are in the same boat. They’re just coasting along in calm water, noticing a handful of weirdos scuttling about warning of some danger that seems impossible and, also, too complicated to understand, and they thinking…this feels eerily like that scene in Titanic where the guy sees the iceberg, except in this version, that guy speaks only Mandarin, and I speak only English, so there’s no chance of me understanding. Ah well. I’ll just go back in the cabin and have a drink, then.

To you, I say, what if you could get the basics in just a weekend? Enough so that you can at least see a vision of the potential miracle that is the Titanic and the danger that is overestimating our ability to direct its course? Enough so you can at least have an opinion and a voice on an issue that could soon affect every person on Earth in significant ways? If you’re interested, then this post is for you. Below, you’ll find a few simple explanations and links to…

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Brie Sweetly
Brie Sweetly

Written by Brie Sweetly

Thoughts. About Stuff. On purpose.

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