This vintage-style 'linguistic evolution' chart showing computers breaking humanity's language ceiling is going viral in AI circles
repligate · x · 2026-10-16
repligate amplifies a book illustration resonating across AI Twitter: a faux-textbook "Table LXXX," attributed to a linguistic evolution diagram by "Vroedel and Zwiebulin."
- It plots a 10,000-year "diachrony of human language" with separate ceiling lines for "man's linguistic ceiling" and "eighth-generation computers"
- A computer-language branch rockets upward after 1750, punching past the human ceiling toward question-marked heights, with a branch labeled GOLEM
- AI circles are sharing it as an accidental metaphor for LLMs surpassing human language
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