alt Hacker NewsWouldn’t it be wonderful if, in the world of LLMs, Lisp became the new lingua franca, because we don’t have to convince humans that parens are scary, and because it enables exactly this kind of magic.
Full circle for Lisp as an AI language.
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jonhohle • yesterday at 10:33 PM
LLMs can’t count. Do you think they can balance parens?
Personally, I’ve wondered why they don’t just generate machine code.
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Hey, I'm the author. Yes, I worked in the University of Toronto's AI lab as a student many years ago, back when Lisp in AI was a thing. It definitely would be full circle!