Roald Dahl is such as clever, fascinating author. I cannot get over the fact that he essentially predicted large language models, and some societal implications of such models, in "The Great Automatic Grammatizator", written in 1954!
> "For example, there’s a trick that nearly every writer uses, of inserting at least one long, obscure word into each story. This makes the reader think that the man is very wise and clever. So I have the machine do the same thing. There’ll be a whole stack of long words stored away just for this purpose.”
> “Where?”
> “In the ‘word-memory’ section,” he said, epexegetically.
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