approximation

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This is a rough approximation of the approach that was used with ChatGPT, which is known as reinforcement learning with human feedback.

From New York Times

One insight from the Belonging Barometer speaks directly to our current moment: White Americans — who have long been offered as the fullest approximation of Americanism — feel that even they don’t belong.

From Washington Post

If you close your eyes and inhale deeply, it’s a convincing approximation.

From New York Times

But inflation excluding food and energy was always a quick-and-dirty approximation to the underlying concept — a shadow on the wall of the cave cast by the Platonic ideal of inflation in goods with inertial prices.

From Seattle Times

It is why the safety case experts’ models of far future nuclear waste risks are uniquely valuable, even if they are, at the end of the day, mere approximations.

From Scientific American