1900 French Painting Predicts LLM Training
yoavgo · x · 2026-07-20
A prominent NLP scholar shared a French painting from 1900 that imagines the year 2000. The author humorously points out that while the devices connected to the students' heads look like electrocution or brain-machine interfaces, the rolling machinery on the other side of the painting is a perfect depiction of modern LLM (Large Language Model) training.
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