Grandma Girl here, I'm Nion Fog Fog Fog, and today we're going to talk with

Christopher Penn about some of the common misconceptions around AI tools like chat geeptee that I've seen among writers

and editors and just people in general. Whether you love it or despise it, I think it's

really important to understand AI and Chris is a

guy who can really help us do that. Christopher Penn, welcome to the Grammar Girl

podcast. Thank you so much. It is nice to I think it's what, oh five? You and I have been podcasting, I think since what, oh five?

You were oh five, I think I was oh six, but yeah, it's been a while.

Yeah, and so actually, you know, because I've been

subscribed to your newsletter for so long, one of the things I've noticed about you is that

you are always on the cutting edge of trends and data.

I mean you called the housing crisis in 2007.

I remember, you know, I was looking at buying a house and you actually said to me

Minyan I think maybe you should wait and I did not take your advice as one of the

worst financial situations I've ever made but you know we loved the house it turned out okay but you were definitely right and then in 2019

2020 again you predicted how bad the pandemic was going to be but way before a lot of other people

realized it and so about I guess it was about a year a year and a half ago I noticed

your almost timely newsletter became entirely about AI.

And I would love to hear more about how that came about,

like whether it was a gradual thing or did you just have an aha moment where you were like okay this needs to be everything?

So AI has existed in some form since the 1950s. I started to have an interest in in 2013 and there's three

branches of AI there's what's called regressive classification and generation

regression is needle in a haystack hey here's a's a bunch of data, and here's an outcome.

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