Replacing myself with a (somewhat outdated) AI
2025 Update This article is based on work I did in 2018, originally appeared on my Medium page in 2020, and went on to be featured in the Voice Tech Podcast. Since then AI and language models have come a loooong way, although the same techniques largely apply. Very few people however are building language models from scratch in this way, instead opting to either build on top of a pre-trained model or simply build an elaborate wrapper around a ChatGPT prompt. The article is republished here as-is, so that others can continue to learn from it. ...