[jprival]

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

(on top of the more obvious references)

[phinnaeus]

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]

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-mod...

[benatkin]

It also rhymes with Card as in Orson Scott Card.