Someone claims the first LLM dates to 3500 BC: 90 pictograms and p(pictogram|pictogram)
mircomusolesi · x · 2026-09-14
A viral AI joke thread: one user quipped that Moses "trained a bigram" by tallying 304,805 letters in 1300 BC (p(consonant|consonant) only, since vowels hadn't been invented), then dropped the tablets and had to retrain from scratch. mircomusolesi one-upped it by citing the Kish tablet: the real first LLM came from Mesopotamia around 3500 BC, tallying 90 pictograms and computing p(pictogram|pictogram) — "a multimodal LLM actually."
It's a nerd joke riffing on how n-gram language models just count symbol co-occurrences — silly, but with a real technical punchline.
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