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shel silverstein on the LLM, 1981
@ozzelot@mstdn.social@davidgerard I started analyzing it and got to a point of "well, that just looks like overflow", when I realized that if this were an LLM, I'd be attributing things to it that it is fundamentally not built to do, like sensible mathematics.
@davidgerard I believe the illustration is a bit cut-off: There's a boy inside all that machinery!
That detail seems very appropriate to me...
@davidgerard I have this one in A3-ish poster size on the wall of my office
@davidgerard interesting, but based on what I'm hearing from a friend's teenage kids, the difference between the Homework Machine and an LLM is that the LLM produces output that earns them full credit.
That's not to say that it produces _correct_ output, just output that teachers can't tell is incorrect given the amount of time they spend grading it.
@tj @thankfulmachine not sure, just saw the pic
https://archive.org/details/ALightInTheAtticByShelSilverstein/page/n27/mode/2up
@tj @davidgerard @thankfulmachine I want to say it's either "A Light in the Attic" or "Where the Sidewalk Ends". I had those two as a kid and I seem to recall this poem being in one of them.
@davidgerard on tbe other side of the page, there sits a boy inside the machinery. Appropriate given:
https://80.lv/articles/builder-ai-s-ai-companion-natasha-was-actually-indian-workers-now-bankrupt
@davidgerard I had a version of this in my gallery from WhatsApp messages circulated in 2023:
Eveline Sulman 
@Axolotl1@gaygeek.social@davidgerard I can't believe they predicted chat gpt
@Axolotl1 @davidgerard Well, perhaps this is not the first AI hype the humanity goes through…