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Creating a computer to find "the ultimate answer to life, the universe and everything", getting a cryptic answer and then creating an even bigger and more compl
by namaria 3y ago
Creating a computer to find "the ultimate answer to life, the universe and everything", getting a cryptic answer and then creating an even bigger and more complicated computer to find the question is a pretty good satire of generative ai based chatbots of exponentially increasing model size.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y agoEven down to the blind faith that there was an accurate calculation performed, which ultimately justified the planet-computer.
- Deestan 3y agoDon't remember if it made it into the book, but from the radio series my favorite is the scene where they end up in a nightclub filled with dancing mannequins sprayed with sweat in order to convince people it was popular and come in.
- namaria 3y ago> a nightclub filled with dancing mannequins sprayed with sweat That's pretty much how I see every nightclub, to be fair... I loved illegal raves when I was in college. Paying big bucks to listen to loops triggered by some influencer feels like a surreal parody...