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Amazing. Good lord Knuth is smart. He remembered questions for chatgpt which he thought up the prior day. And he intelligently & knowledgeably parsed the respo
by ncr100 3y ago
Amazing. Good lord Knuth is smart.
He remembered questions for chatgpt which he thought up the prior day. And he intelligently & knowledgeably parsed the response.
- ToValueFunfetti 3y agoEh, he's definitely smarter than a Markov chain, but I don't know if we can say he's smart. The use of 'themes' to refer to 'musical themes' rather than 'literary themes' is confusing at best, and the overall copy divides into a list of questions, a list of answers, and a list of of comments on the answers, while a question-answer-commentary structure for each question would be much more readable by humans. Perhaps with further advances in the field we will someday see a truly intelligent Donald Knuth. (I kid, his commentary is honestly the most fair and unbiased I have seen on the subject)
- ncr100 3y agoNice kidding too! <Nick claps>
- reb 3y agoOkay, look—