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intrasight 5 hours ago

Better than waiting 7.5 million years to have a tell you the answer is 42.

bartread 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Also 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-theg...

zozbot234 3 hours ago | parent [-]

"Can write a prize-winning novel in fifteen minutes" - that's quite optimistic by modern standards!

staticman2 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

42 wasn't a low quality answer.

The joke revolves around the incongruity of "42" being precisely correct.

whyenot 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Should have used a better platform. So long and thanks for all the fish.

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AnonymousPlanet 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yes and then no one knows the prompt!

thinkingtoilet 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Maybe you should have asked a better question. :P

patapong 5 hours ago | parent [-]

What do you get if you multiply six by nine?

ctxc 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Tea

GTP 3 hours ago | parent [-]

For two

RuslanL 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

67?

xeyownt 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

54?

ep103 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Some one should let Douglas Adams know the calculation could have been so much faster if the machine just lied.

lesam 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I think Adams was prescient, since in his story the all powerful computer reaches the answer '42' via incorrect arithmetic.

xg15 4 hours ago | parent [-]

The Bistromathics? That's not incorrect, it's simply too advanced for us to understand.

aktau an hour ago | parent [-]

“What do you get if you multiply six by nine?”

(One) source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/1mjudsm/comment/n7d...

xg15 an hour ago | parent [-]

Ok, my Hitchhiker-foo was too weak, thanks!