How AI Actually Works: From Neurons to ChatGPT
Unit 2 · Lesson 3

Temperature: Always the Safe Word, or Roll the Dice

You can predict which token gets chosen at temperature 0 versus a high temperature, and explain why the same prompt twice gives two different answers without the model changing its mind or learning from you.
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