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The replicator in Star Trek doesn't seem plausible to me any more. Flawlessly outputting a cup of Earl Grey? The computer-based drinks machine onboard the Hear
by Freak_NL 1y ago
The replicator in Star Trek doesn't seem plausible to me any more. Flawlessly outputting a cup of Earl Grey?
The computer-based drinks machine onboard the Heart of Gold on the other hand… Trying to order tea there now sounds suspiciously like a bout of futile prompt-engineering; trying to goad an LLM into giving you tea, but ending up with something which is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.
- wizzwizz4 1y agoAnd if you phrase your question wrong, you have a chance of triggering a Chain of Thought process that gets stuck in a loop "analysing" some utterly irrelevant part of the problem (here, "why would anyone want to order tea?"), locking up important subsystems of other systems on the network in the process.