You're going to try her game YOURSELF: guessing the word that comes next.
Plume is the parrot of the Word Forest. Guessing the next word is her only trick, and it takes her very, very far.
The next-word game
Touch the word that completes the sentence.
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Easy, right? But wait… how did you KNOW? You didn't guess at random: you looked at the other words. Remember that.
The magic trick, for real
Plume doesn't know. She bets.
Look at the bars: every possible word has a number of chances. Press “Let Plume choose” a few times: the big numbers come out more often, but never for sure. That's what talking machines do, billions of times every second.
Inside Plume's head
What Plume writes
Plume is holding her breath. Let her choose.
From Plume to ChatGPT
Plume has read a few stories. A real talking machine has read millions of them.
Here, five possible words. In a real machine, the die has 50,000 sides — one for every word piece it knows.
It draws a word, sticks it on the end, then starts over from scratch with the longer sentence. The whole magic trick is right there.
Sometimes it draws the small number. That's why a machine sometimes says silly things — and why a good agent always double-checks.
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Which words helped you? Put some looks!
Touch the words to put eyes 👀 on the ones that helped you (3 eyes max).
Plume thinks in French! Her favorite sentence is « Le chat boit du lait » — “The cat drinks some milk” (Le = the, chat = cat, boit = drinks, du = some). To guess « lait » (milk) in « Le chat boit du ___ », some words help a lot, others not at all.
The super-power of looks
Touch the 2 words that prove this “mouse” is NOT the little animal.
“I click with my mouse on the screen.”
The word “mouse” has two meanings. The words around it give away the answer!
Exactly! “click” and “the screen” give away the computer mouse. That's Plume's secret: every word looks at the others to understand who it is. Scientists call that ATTENTION.
THE MISSION: write a sentence WITH Plume
At every step, choose the word with the MOST feather-chances 🪶.
The more feathers a word has, the more likely it's the right one. That's how Plume writes.
You just ran a TRANSFORMER.
It's the machine hiding behind Graig, and behind the AIs that write. Invented in 2017, it does exactly what you just did:
1. It reads the words already written. 2. Each word puts looks 👀 on the others (attention — your mouse-and-screen trick!). 3. It gives feather-chances 🪶 to the words that could come next. 4. It picks one… and starts again. Word after word.
When Graig talks to you, he does this for EVERY word of his sentence. He doesn't recite — he guesses, word after word, just like Plume.
You run into Plumes every day
Look where the word guessers hide in your day.
Your phone's keyboard the 3 words suggested above the keys: a mini-Plume guessing your next word.
Graig and the AIs that talk every one of Graig's sentences is guessed word after word, with looks and chances.
Translation to translate, the machine reads your sentence with its looks… and guesses the next sentence in the other language.
Automatic subtitles the machine listens, then guesses the most likely words, one by one.
The spell-checker “you probably meant to write…”: another word guesser.
The search bar you type 2 words, it suggests the rest of your question — guessed, not read from your mind.
The story machine — YOUR creation
Write your story: choose the words YOU want, even the ones with almost no feathers.
When an AI often picks the rare words, we say it has temperature. We call it the wild button.