(FILES) This illustration picture shows the AI (Artificial Intelligence) smartphone app ChatGPT surrounded by other AI Apps in Vaasa, on June 6, 2023. – US comedian Sarah Silverman and two other authors have sued Open AI over copyright infringement in the latest pushback by creatives since the company’s release of ChatGPT took the world by storm. The trio also filed a suit against Facebook parent company Meta, whose less known open source models also used pirated downloads of their books for training purposes, the suit alleged. In both lawsuits, which were filed on July 7, 2023, in a California court, the authors accuse the tech companies of using their books to train their AI models and are claiming a series of copyright infringements. (Photo by OLIVIER MORIN / AFP)
Was AI predicted by THIS creepy 1950s short story?
Was AI predicted by this creepy 1950s short story? Here’s more about this short story, and why Roald Dahl could have predicted ChatGPT.
(FILES) This illustration picture shows the AI (Artificial Intelligence) smartphone app ChatGPT surrounded by other AI Apps in Vaasa, on June 6, 2023. – US comedian Sarah Silverman and two other authors have sued Open AI over copyright infringement in the latest pushback by creatives since the company’s release of ChatGPT took the world by storm. The trio also filed a suit against Facebook parent company Meta, whose less known open source models also used pirated downloads of their books for training purposes, the suit alleged. In both lawsuits, which were filed on July 7, 2023, in a California court, the authors accuse the tech companies of using their books to train their AI models and are claiming a series of copyright infringements. (Photo by OLIVIER MORIN / AFP)
Did this short story predict artificial intelligence?
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A story published in the 1950s might have predicted the rise of AI and ChatGPT. ‘The Great Automatic Grammatizator’ talks about a computer powerful enough to tell stories in seconds.
Sound familiar?
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Here’s more about this short story from the 1950s.
Did THIS story predict AI?
Author Roald Dahl wrote The Great Automatic Grammatizator in the 1950s.
The story talks about an inventor, who claims his computer can write full stories in less than minutes. His boss tests the new invention. Impressed, he involves the government.
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In the story, writers rely on the Great Automatic Grammatizator to write. Computers create ‘original thought’ in the story, just like writers.
Writers who don’t agree, starve in the story. Writers who use the Grammatizator become rich.
Almost just like ChatGPT.
AI and The Great Automatic Grammatizator
The Great Automatic Grammatizator can easily be compared to ChatGPT. One is a horror story from the 1950s.
Elon Musk and Sam Altman founded ChatGPT in 2015. The story just shows that technology can be used for a lot of different things – and yes, AI can be creepy as wel!
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AI even affected the Presidency. Experts checked the a presidential speech to find out if AI could have written it.
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl was born in 1916, and wrote stories like James and the Giant Peach. Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory were also famous Roald Dahl stories – though he wrote many other, including The Great Automatic Grammatizator.
Many Roald Dahl stories have become movies, including many of the above.
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