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Yanqing Cheng

Sep 21, 2026

4:42
Yeah.
4:44
And because what the GPT does is it finishes the story.
4:51
So it guesses, well, a really helpful, really kind, really smart assistant would say something like this.
4:59
And then it gets the problem fed back to it again.
5:02
You're a really smart, really kind, really helpful assistant, and the human said this, and you've said this, and the human said this, and you say...
5:12
Which means that, you know, this kind of assistant for the very first generation of GPTs was fictional.
5:21
And so the very first generation of chat GPT invented ex nihilo what this kind of helpful assistant looked like.

13 MINS LATER

18:51
I think we need to remember all the things, the techniques that we used to use to progress humanity, like reading books.

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