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date: '2023-03-13T20:08:35.475110'
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- https://brid.gy/publish/mastodon
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tags:
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- ai
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- nlp
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- humour
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title: Deep Thought, Hitchhiker's Guide, LLMs and Raspberry Pis
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description: Musings on parallels between AI fiction and AI fact
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type: post
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url: /posts/2023/03/13/deepthought-hitchhiker-s-guide-llms-and-raspberry-pis1678738115
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Today I read via [Simon Willison's blog](https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/13/alpaca/) that [someone has managed to get LlaMA running on a raspberry pi]. That's pretty incredible progress and it made me think of this excerpt from [Hitchiker's Guide To the Galaxy](https://bookwyrm.social/book/181728/s/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-trilogy-collection-5-books-set-by-douglas-adams):
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> O Deep Thought computer," he said, "the task we have designed you to perform is this. We want you to tell us...." he paused, "The Answer."
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>"The Answer?" said Deep Thought. "The Answer to what?"
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>"Life!" urged Fook.
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>"The Universe!" said Lunkwill.
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>"Everything!" they said in chorus.
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>Deep Thought paused for a moment's reflection.
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>"Tricky," he said finally.
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>"But can you do it?"
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>Again, a significant pause.
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>"Yes," said Deep Thought, "I can do it."
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>"There is an answer?" said Fook with breathless excitement.
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>"Yes," said Deep Thought. "Life, the Universe, and Everything. There is an answer. But, I'll have to think about it."
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>...
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>Fook glanced impatiently at his watch.
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>“How long?” he said.
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>“Seven and a half million years,” said Deep Thought.
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>Lunkwill and Fook blinked at each other.
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>“Seven and a half million years...!” they cried in chorus.
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>“Yes,” declaimed Deep Thought, “I said I’d have to think about it, didn’t I?"
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Maybe Deep Thought was actually just an LLM running on a raspberry pi and that's why it took so long to generate the ultimate answer!
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