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Looked at a certain way it's incredible that a 40-odd year old comedy sci-fi series is so accurate about the expected quality of (at least some) AI output. Whi
by bartread 7mo ago
Looked at a certain way it's incredible that a 40-odd year old comedy sci-fi series is so accurate about the expected quality of (at least some) AI output.
Which makes it even funnier.
It makes me a little sad that Douglas Adams didn't live to see it.
- patapong 7mo agoAlso check out "The Great Automatic Grammatizator" by Roald Dahl for another eerily accurate scifi description of LLMs written in 1954: https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/1953-dahl-thegreatautomaticgrammatizator.pdf https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/1953-dahl-theg...
- zozbot234 7mo ago"Can write a prize-winning novel in fifteen minutes" - that's quite optimistic by modern standards!
- staticman2 7mo ago42 wasn't a low quality answer. The joke revolves around the incongruity of "42" being precisely correct.