How do chatbots learn patterns?
The Pattern Parrot
How do chatbots learn patterns?
You type a question into a chatbot and — boom — it answers like it knows everything. But how does it learn all those patterns, all those ways words fit together? The secret isn't magic. It's more like… training a very determined parrot who's read the entire internet.
First, the chatbot reads. Millions and millions of sentences — books, websites, conversations, recipes, poems, everything humans have written down. It doesn't understand the words yet. It just sees patterns, like noticing that "The cat sat on the" is almost always followed by a thing you can sit on.
