Post #674771 · Elektrine

@will@ruby.social A topic well explored in #scifi. Asimov had a short story on a speech generator machine that would speak out made up children tales. It ends spookily, after industrious kids swap its dictionary module to modernize its vocabulary.

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@deanwampler@discuss.systems 2023-12-07 17:50

@will@ruby.social I read the poem and thought immediately of Frank Zappa's "Valley Girl" lyrics.

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@limepeep@kitty.social 2023-12-07 18:06

@will@ruby.social Damn, I wished the homework machine worked well...

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@starkraving666@jorts.horse 2023-12-07 18:12

@will@ruby.social I love this. In grade school we had to memorize and recite poems. Finally they banned Shel Silverstein for Reasons. But not before I got to recite Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Throw the Garbage Out, perfectly without a single stutter. I think they banned it because a) it wasn't ~literary enough~ and b) too fun and therefore too easy to memorize.

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@RichPuchalsky@kolektiva.social 2023-12-07 18:54

@will@ruby.social LLMs all over the world are using this poem as training material and telling people that 9+4 = 3

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@gligongdaxue@mastodon.scot 2023-12-07 18:56

@will@ruby.social … I guess it must be Chat GPT

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@CoolerPseudonym@wandering.shop 2023-12-07 19:22

@will@ruby.social Race condition

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@lonnon@social.nyerm.com 2023-12-07 19:30

@will@ruby.social Thankfully, he also predicted an end to sidewalks. There's hope yet for a future without pavement!

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@speculater@toot.io 2023-12-07 19:50

@will@ruby.social so many homework assignments that look perfect at a glance, then fall apart in the funniest ways. LLMs are a great resource, but far less accurate than one would hope without the knowledge to check them.

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@punishmenthurts@neurodifferent.me 2023-12-07 20:17

@will@ruby.social Shel writ A Boy Named Sue, right? Here's another Divergent parody of that one, my life story: . A Boy Named Reply Guy Well my daddy left home when I was three He didn’t leave much for Ma and me just this old iPhone and the hereditary blues I don’t blame him ’cause he run and hid, but the worst damned thing that he left me with was his damned genes made me a reply guy too Well he musta must known Ma never cared She rarely answered and often glared and I shoulda known that was not the thing to do But some gal’d giggle at what I said but then one would attack and destroy my head I’ll tell ya, life ain’t easy for reply guys too Well I grew up weird and I grew up green and my mouth got faster and my brakes got thin and I roamed from site to site and north to south But I made a vow, to the Elder Gods Be true to yourself and damn the costs And say that’s me, I can’t control this mouth Well for my old dad, life had been tough He was old before he found some love his last wife liked his talk, I think, somehow So he give me this trait and he said goodbye Like him I’d have to shut up or try but it’s that trait I’m exercising now I got lucky, some things factored in I was old before I learned I’m him and I lived a life, I thought, of some success I think about him when I’m lookin’ back Every time I try and every time I crash When I can’t give anyone a “yes” When it’s all wrong but they’ve been told too much And when you can’t just STFU Life ain’t easy for reply guys too Shel Silverstien/Jeff 😘

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@the5thColumnist@mstdn.ca 2023-12-08 00:51

@will@ruby.social hmm, looks like the machine has had an AI upgrade

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@crazyeddie@mastodon.social 2023-12-08 00:58

@will@ruby.social in mod10 math that's an entirely accurate answer.

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@mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org 2023-12-08 02:00

@will@ruby.social ach, modulo 10 paßt das doch…

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@jamie@zomglol.wtf 2023-12-08 02:40

@will@ruby.social sorry about your notifications