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Take a glance at: The New Yorker, Annals of Technology – The Inside Story of Microsoft’s Partnership with OpenAI

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Worth a look, if not firewalled.

Besides going (very clearly) into the who, what, when of the recent corporate debacle, it provides a lot of detail on what sorts of AI were being worked on and the 'training' that involved.

Also, anyone else remember Clippy, the idiotic pop-up paperclip 'assistant' that Microsoft introduced to Word? "You seem to be writing a letter. Would you like me to help you with that?" Oh, the swearing. That story is in there, too.

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