Shel Silverstein’s Homework Machine was one of my kids’ favorite poems of his when they were little. First published in 1981, the short poem turned out to be rather prescient about AI, especially the earlier LLMs, which couldn’t math their way out of a wet paper bag.Your homework comes out, quick and clean as can be.Here it is— ‘nine plus four?’ and the answer is ‘three.’Three?Oh me …I guess it’s not as perfectAs I thought it would be.(via @brooksrocco) Tags: artificial intelligence · poetry · Shel Silverstein