There’s a short story by Stanislaw Lem (who also wrote Solaris ) about scientists who train a slime mold to be intelligent by forcing it to grow only in the shape of letters, then forcing the letters to be real words, … and so on, until they able to have full (if slow) conversations with humans.
I just realized, it’s kind of presciently like training an LLM. Story is at least 40 years old, so…
There’s a short story by Stanislaw Lem (who also wrote Solaris ) about scientists who train a slime mold to be intelligent by forcing it to grow only in the shape of letters, then forcing the letters to be real words, … and so on, until they able to have full (if slow) conversations with humans.
I just realized, it’s kind of presciently like training an LLM. Story is at least 40 years old, so…