alt Hacker NewsLooked 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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staticman2 • yesterday at 6:12 PM
42 wasn't a low quality answer.
The joke revolves around the incongruity of "42" being precisely correct.
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...