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teleforcetoday at 12:18 AM3 repliesview on HN

>Have you ever daydreamed about talking to someone from the past?

Fun facts, LLM was once envisioned by Steve Jobs in one of his interviews [1].

Essentially one of his main wish in life is to meet and interract with Aristotle, in which according to him at the time, computer in the future can make it possible.

[1] In 1985 Steve Jobs described a machine that would help people get answers from Aristotle–modern LLM [video]:

https://youtu.be/yolkEfuUaGs


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cedillatoday at 12:36 AM

The idea of talking to a machine that has all of humanities knowledge and gives answers is older than electronic computing. It certainly wasn't a novel idea when Jobs gave that speech. At that time, the field of artificial intelligence was old enough to become US president.

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freetangatoday at 12:53 AM

Imagine aiming for Aristotle and landing on Siri…

jcgrillotoday at 12:43 AM

Except... not at all? The vast majority of the training data required to create an artificial Aristotle has been lost forever. Smash your coffee cup on the ground. Now reassemble it and put the coffee back in. Once you can repeatably do that I'll begin to believe you can train an artificial Aristotle.

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