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>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

cedilla | parent | next
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.
ok123456 | root | parent
Also, using natural language to interact with digital computers has been a research goal since the advent of interactive digital computers. AI in the 80s tried to do this with expert systems.

With the current crop of LLMs, you could argue it's now a solved problem, but the problem is nothing new.

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anthk | parent | next
>Aristotle

As a snake oil seller, heh, I woudn't expect something better from Jobs. A competent and true programmer/hacker like Knuth and the like would just want to talk with Archimedes -he almost did a 0.9 version of Calculus- or Euclid, far more relevant to the faulty logic and the Elements' quackery from Aristotle.

jcgrillo | parent | next
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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freetanga | parent
Imagine aiming for Aristotle and landing on Siri…