In the other Project Gutenberg discussion, I started checking out science fiction stories, and came across this one.
Robert Sheckley wrote this in 1953, but the story has so much parallels to the modern day LLMs and their capabilities and limitations to humans.
> It's well established now that the way you put a question often determines not only the answer you'll get, but the type of answer possible. So ... a mechanical answerer, geared to produce the ultimate revelations in reference to anything you want to know, might have unsuspected limitations.
Robert Sheckley wrote this in 1953, but the story has so much parallels to the modern day LLMs and their capabilities and limitations to humans.
> It's well established now that the way you put a question often determines not only the answer you'll get, but the type of answer possible. So ... a mechanical answerer, geared to produce the ultimate revelations in reference to anything you want to know, might have unsuspected limitations.