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The computer “Deep Thought”, as depicted in the movie version of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. An enormous golden figure sits atop a ziggurat, as a crowd of people eagerly await the answer to life, the universe, and everything.

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The computer “Deep Thought”, as depicted in the movie version of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. An enormous golden figure sits atop a ziggurat, as a crowd of people eagerly await the answer to life, the universe, and everything.
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Chris @ 🦣 (tenzochris@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2024 08:49:19 JST Chris @ 🦣

The advent of LLMs masquerading as artificial intelligence has made the notion of an absurdly powerful computer, constructed at great expense, and given unseemly resources to answer a meaningful question, only to return the answer “42”, feel more and more prophetic.

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