
Author
Subarna Basnet
Published
Jan 10, 2023 • 2 min read
so today something kinda weird happened.
while scrolling instagram i kept seeing people posting screenshots of some AI thing. people asking it questions and it replying with long answers. first i thought it was fake or just another internet hype. the internet always gets excited about random tools every few weeks.
but still... i got curious.
so i opened it and typed something random.
and boom... it replied instantly.
not like google links. not like some short answer. it actually wrote a full explanation like someone was typing to me. that moment i just stared at the screen for a few seconds thinking "wait... what?"
then obviously i started testing it like crazy.
asking random questions. weird questions. some school related questions. some completely useless ones just to see what happens. and every time it responded with something that actually made sense. sometimes wrong, sometimes a bit strange, but still... pretty impressive.
i kept thinking how something like this is even possible.
there must be some crazy technology behind this. huge data, powerful computers, complex systems... something big must be running behind that simple chat box. while trying to understand more, i started reading the openai docs overview and beginner explainers like the hugging face llm course.
i don't really understand it yet. not even close.
but it definitely made me curious.
maybe right now it's just something interesting i'm playing with after school.
but who knows.
maybe in the future i'll actually try to understand how this works... or maybe even build something related to it myself.