Bender The Robot Quotes

My birthday is in March, and that year it fell during an especially bright spring week, vivid and clear in the narrow residential streets where we lived just a handful of blocks south of Sunset. The night-blooming jasmine that crawled up our neighborhood's front gate released its heady scent at dusk, and to the north, the hills rolled charmingly over the horizon, houses tucked into the brown. Soon, daylight savings time would arrive, and even at early nine, I associated my birthday with the first hint of summer, with the feeling in classrooms of open windows and lighter clothing and in a few months no more homework. My hair got lighter in spring, from light brown to nearly blond, almost like my mother's ponytail tassel. In the neighborhood gardens, the agapanthus plants started to push out their long green robot stems to open up to soft purples and blues.

In the evenings, my father and I ate dinner quietly in front of the TV together. Wednesday night, Thursday. Frozen dinners I'd picked out at the grocery store, greatest hits by my favorite factories. One of the best ones, in Indiana, prided itself on a no touch food assembly, which meant every step was monitored by robotic arms, ones that placed the tortillas into the dish, layered them with cheese, dropped dollops of tomato sauce on top, and shoved it all into the giant oven, thus producing an utterly blank enchilada.

AI boosters have suggested that the process of peer review could be sped up with the judicious application of LLMs. Perhaps, they say, the chatbots could write a first draft of the review or suggest possible problems with the papers being reviewed! This isn’t hypothetical: researchers at Stanford studied39 peer reviews of papers submitted to conferences about natural language processing, machine learning, and robot learning from 2020 to early 2024 and found that between 6.5 and 16.9 percent of the peer reviews written after the release of ChatGPT contained text likely to have been either simply the output of an LLM or substantially modified by one—a sharp increase compared to pre-ChatGPT.