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.

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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!

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staticman2 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

42 wasn't a low quality answer.

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