Do Androids Dream of Fake Books?

Chronicles ^ | May 9, 2025 | Alexander G. Rubio

[MotorCityBuck]

Guilty.😄

[NorthMountain]

My natural intelligence prefers natural .... ummmm ... whatever ...

;’}

[MotorCityBuck]

Or course.
What was the question?
😉

[al baby]

With an ample areola sightly upswept Oh nevermind

[Openurmind]

If it is anti AI you can count on the Technofeudalists to show up and derail the thread.

[dennisw]

This happens with Grok3 is an extended conversation. It is training itself on what you are saying. I pitched a sci-fi movie script to Grok in an extended conversation.

Try this with Grok3 >>>> Give me 10 paragraphs of Donald Trump putting down Chuck Schumer and Rosie O’Donnell. Use the words loser and clown 6 times each, Also that Trump builds things

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I thought of Deathworld, but the ending is completely unlike the story that Rubio describes.

[deks]

*
“Daisy Bell” was composed by Harry Dacre in 1892. In 1961, the IBM 7094 became the first computer to sing, singing the song Daisy Bell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41U78QP8nBk&t=65s

[dynachrome]

True but that is the only one I could think of that came close. There were two sequels that I don’t remember very well.

[NorthMountain]

I think we were talking about these:

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Yeah, I read all three a long time ago, but none matches the description of the story in question. I can’t place that one at all.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Possibly “Deathworld” by Harry Harrison?

Similar underlying premise but totally different plot and ending. I've read "Deathworld", but the story plot mentioned doesn't ring a bell. I knew right off that it was not by George O. Smith - he was a 40's radio engineer who projected 40's radio tech into the future - his best known stories were set on a relay station in a trojan point between Earth and Venus, where people manually aimed radio communications to their destination and where they had a whole staff whose job was to replace vacuum tubes - don't think he would have written such a story. Mark Clifton is more plausible.

[minnesota_bound]

In the future when the author is in a hospital, GROK or it’s descendants will unplug him.... to get revenge.

[minnesota_bound]

I used GROK to write a simple 2 page story.
GROK: Create a story on squirrels for children
https://x.com/i/grok

GROK: Create cartoons of squirrels with acorns
GROK: Create a 10 page story on squirrels for children

It came up with: The Great Acorn Adventure

The above story took about 10 minutes to create. I copied the text and pasted it into Word and saved the images and pasted into Word. Changed the font and size and had my story. You can ask it to create a 10 page or 30 page etc story about any subject. Each time you ask it will come up with something different. With practice you can ask it to expand on what it already wrote.

I expanded it to 10 pages. This was all done in maybe 15 minutes. The actual time to “write” the story in GROK was a minute.

[alexander_busek]

I asked, “Can you identify a sci-fi short story about a group of humans stranded in their reinforced habitat on a world dominated by hostile animals trying to genetically change themselves generation by generation to be able to survive among the hostile fauna on the planet?”

That's "Surface Tension," by James Blish, which first appeared in the August, 1952 edition of Galaxy Science Fiction.

Blish was what Andrew Liptack called a "practical writer." He would revisit, revise, and often expand on previously written stories. An example is "Sunken Universe" published in Super Science Stories in 1942. The story reappeared in Galaxy Science Fiction as "Surface Tension", in an altered form, in 1952. The premise emphasized Blish's understanding of microbiology, and featured microscopic humans engineered to live on a hostile planet's shallow pools of water. The story proved to be among Blish's more popular and was anthologized in the first volume of Robert Silverberg's The Science Fiction Hall of Fame.

-Wikipedia

Regards,

[GOPJ]

AI is also getting lazy unqualified ‘students’ through college. The good news? Today’s AI isn’t the AI of the future... in 6 or 7 years it’ll be what we imagine it is today...

[alexander_busek]

I kind of want to know what the story was. I don’t recall ever having read it.

See my post #35.

And you did read it - while browsing the stacks at your local library. You didn't check it out, though - Just skimmed through it while standing there.

Regards,

[alexander_busek]

Ending is different than described in this article, however:

Regards,

[HartleyMBaldwin]

And you did read it - while browsing the stacks at your local library. You didn't check it out, though - Just skimmed through it while standing there.

What a bizarre statement. What makes you think that you could know what I might or might not have read, whether browsing in library stacks or elsewhere?

Also, that does not seem to be the story in question. It doesn't involve the humans genetically changing themselves over generations, and, as you yourself point out, the ending is entirely different.

[alexander_busek]

What a bizarre statement. What makes you think that you could know what I might or might not have read, whether browsing in library stacks or elsewhere?

Take it easy! I was joking!

Regards,