[marban]

Trurl is the name of a character in the science fiction short story collection "The Cyberiad" by Polish author Stanisław Lem. Trurl is a highly intelligent robot and inventor who, along with his friend Klapaucius, goes on various adventures throughout the universe. — via CGPT

[myhf]

A great book that prefigured the kinds of interactions people are now having with ChatGPT. For example:

“Have it compose a poem — a poem about a haircut! But lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet heroism in the face of certain doom! Six lines, cleverly rhymed, and every word beginning with the letter S!!”

“Seduced, shaggy Samson snored.

She scissored short. Sorely shorn,

Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed,

Silently scheming,

Sightlessly seeking

Some savage, spectacular suicide.”

[F2hP18Foam]

I had a feeling that ChatGPT would have trouble with some aspects of a request that specific, but here's what it gave me:

She sat with scissors, ready to snip,

Slicing strands of hair, curl by curl, clip by clip,

Shears shimmering, sharp as swords in sunlight,

Swiftly, skillfully, she shortened the sight,

Saddened by strands strewn on the floor,

She stood, serene, satisfied, the style was no more.

Clearly nowhere as good, and it couldn't get all the words to start with an 'S', even with a few attempts to correct it.

Still, some software should succeed someday, sans skipped S's. Substituting some synonyms, surely.

[omoikane]

Stanisław Lem’s "Cyberiad" is a great book that predicted machine learning and various modern technologies, although credit for this particular poem should probably go to Michael Kandel for his brilliant English translation. It's very different in other languages:

https://mwichary.medium.com/seduced-shaggy-samson-snored-725...