DAY 3 · HOW CHATBOTS MAKE WORDS
Polly’s Word Jar
Meet Polly, a robot parrot.
Change her word cards. Change what she says.
4 missions · About 7 to 10 minutes
How to play
From Day 3: chatbots predict what comes next from patterns in examples. Polly’s jar makes this visible: more cards make a word more likely, even when it is false.
1
Look in the jar. Each card stands for a word that came next in an example.
2
east
Predict, then ask Polly. She pulls one card at random. More cards = more likely.
3
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Add word cards and try again. Compare what Polly says with the facts.
Mission 1 of 4
Score 0
THE FACTS
POLLY
POLLY SAID
POLLY'S JAR
WHAT THIS SHOWS
Polly's report card
sentences Polly said
sounded smooth
facts she checked
PromptWhat you type in to start a chatbot off.
PredictTo work out what comes next from what came before.
ProbabilityHow often something followed in the examples.
LikelyHaving the highest probability of coming next.
FluentWriting that flows and sounds natural.
VariationA difference between two runs of the same thing.
Polly finishes sentences by pulling likely words from her jar. Change what is in the jar, and you change what she says, true or not.