[codetiger]

Imagine, this working on a Gameboy, in those days. Would've sounded like magic

[Sharlin]

I don’t think this could beat an ELIZA-style bot in how magical it feels, given the extreme terseness of its replies.

[lodovic]

I love these thought experiments. Looking at the code size, it would have been possible for someone to come up with this back in the days, similar to the idea of a million monkeys on a typewriter eventually producing Shakespeare.

[alfiedotwtf]

And would have lasted 3 minutes.

Speaking of - I remember my first digital camera (Fujitsu 1Mb resolution using SmartMedia)… it used so much power that you could take 20-30 photos and then needed to replace all 4 batteries lol

[numpad0]

Flip phones had predictive texts since forever. LLMs are just* supercharged predi[ctive text algorithms are computer algorithms that are]

[qingcharles]

"Look, my Game Boy passes the Turing Test!"

*burns you at the stake*