Cal Newport: What Isaac Asimov Reveals About Living with A.I.

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mwkaufma · 8h ago

Conflating LLMs and Science Fiction AI is probably one of the worst (motivated) communication failures in media.

CamperBob2 · 5h ago

There's another Asimov story that's much more prophetic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Someday_(short_story) If you wanted a vision of what LLMs would look like, 70 years ahead of time, you could do a lot worse.

The story concerns a pair of boys who dismantle and upgrade an old Bard, a child's computer whose sole function is to generate random fairy tales. The boys download a book about computers into the Bard's memory in an attempt to expand its vocabulary, but the Bard simply incorporates computers into its standard fairy tale repertoire...

mitchbob · 8h ago

https://archive.ph/nFsqA

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Cal Newport: What Isaac Asimov Reveals About Living with A.I.

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