Chris @ 🦣Aug 7, 2024
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.
Show threaderinaceus
@tenzochris The difference is that 42 was the correct answer.
Aug 7, 2024 at 9:24pmWeb
Show threadCody Boone FergusonAug 7, 2024
@erinaceus @tenzochris some people actually believe that. Some scientists have spent years studying it and claim that something as complex as the universe can be answered by the number 42. All the sillier when Douglas Adams flat out stated on USENET it was a joke (who would have thought that?).
Show threadDierk HaasisAug 8, 2024
@erinaceus @tenzochris It actually isn't.
Show threadCaógena 🧉Aug 8, 2024
@erinaceus @tenzochris well a later entry in the book series put even that into question!