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I thought “Bard” was an Asimov reference: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Someday_(short_story) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Someday_(short_story) (on top o

• phinnaeus 3y ago
  It's too close a match for it not to be > The story concerns [...] an old Bard, a child's computer whose sole function is to generate random fairy tales. The boys download a book about computers into the Bard's memory in an attempt to expand its vocabulary, but the Bard simply incorporates computers into its standard fairy tale repertoire.
  • yencabulator 3y ago
    Well the ending sure sounds like an LLM getting stuck: > "the little computer knew then that computers would always grow wiser and more powerful until someday—someday—someday—…" https://blog.gdeltproject.org/llm-infinite-loops-failure-modes-the-current-state-of-llm-entity-extraction/ https://blog.gdeltproject.org/llm-infinite-loops-failure-mod...
• benatkin 3y ago
  It also rhymes with Card as in Orson Scott Card.