There's another Asimov story that's much more prophetic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Someday_(short_story) If you wanted a vision of what LLMs would look like, 70 years ahead of time, you could do a lot worse.
The story concerns a pair of boys who dismantle and upgrade an old Bard, a child's computer whose sole function is to generate random fairy tales. The boys download a book about computers into the Bard's memory in an attempt to expand its vocabulary, but the Bard simply incorporates computers into its standard fairy tale repertoire...
Conflating LLMs and Science Fiction AI is probably one of the worst (motivated) communication failures in media.
There's another Asimov story that's much more prophetic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Someday_(short_story) If you wanted a vision of what LLMs would look like, 70 years ahead of time, you could do a lot worse.
The story concerns a pair of boys who dismantle and upgrade an old Bard, a child's computer whose sole function is to generate random fairy tales. The boys download a book about computers into the Bard's memory in an attempt to expand its vocabulary, but the Bard simply incorporates computers into its standard fairy tale repertoire...
https://archive.ph/nFsqA