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TMWNNyesterday at 11:05 AM2 repliesview on HN

>Definitely see this. The 1970s hardware is archaic, but the concept is still relevant.

Indeed. There is nothing in the film that contradicts the notion of Colossus being a very, very large LLM.

Although I think the film is even better than the book by D. F. Jones, only the latter mentions how, despite being created specifically for US national defense, Colossus is also fed unrelated data including Shakespeare's sonnets, because its creators do not know if it could be important.


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spiritplumberyesterday at 10:02 PM

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/LeftBeyond I wrote this in 2015, it... fits. I'm fairly proud of myself for predicting model collapse.

foobiekryesterday at 3:08 PM

The film is very much better than the book. The sequel books, however, are not good. At all.

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