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Elana Mitchell's avatar

โ€œTheyโ€™re almost as good at nitpicking as Elana.โ€

For a moment I was worried the robots were coming after MY job but having finished reading your post I am greatly reassured they are not ๐Ÿ˜‚

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ivalley's avatar

No time soon, ol friend.

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Dave W's avatar

'Twas brillig and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe. All mimsy were the borogoves and the mome raths outgrabe.

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insomniac's avatar

Is your chatbot, which surely must have an actual name, permanently nutso now, or will it recover? Won't it start adding it's garbage output into the model, and so on and so forth until Skynet?

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John Birmingham's avatar

It's calmed down this morning after a good sleep and a cup of tea.

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ivalley's avatar

I did try Chatty on Coleridge, "Kubla Khan." Don't try this at home.

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Formerly Known as Simon's avatar

I was reading a story about that Loeb experiment. Slightly terrifying, but this is hilarious - its like it got worse as each chapter summary progressed. Are we creating our own demise by (re)inventing Vogons? Oh how Mr Adams would chortle. I reckon he would have loved this period of unbridled exploration.

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John Birmingham's avatar

OMFG yes. He'd have been ALL OVER IT.

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Therbs's avatar

I want Chatty to do Vogon poetry.

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Johnno's avatar

I got stuck at "coaxial knavery and folds". Let's go meta - what would MidJourney et al create from this?

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ivalley's avatar

We should sic Chatty on that Coleridge poem.

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Drew Sanderson's avatar

For some reason this reminded me of the Philip K Dick android in Losing the Head of Philip K. Dick by David Duffy (which is a science book, not fiction).

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