When Copying Goes Wrong: The Xerox Photocopier Incident and What it Teaches Us About Large-Language Models
The New Yorker connected Xerox to ChatGPT:
"In 2013, workers at a German construction company noticed something odd about their Xerox photocopier: when they made a copy of the floor plan of a house, the copy differed from the original in a subtle but significant way. In the original floor plan, each of the house’s three rooms was accompanied by a rectangle specifying its area: the rooms were 14.13, 21.11, and 17.42 square metres, respectively. However, in the photocopy, all three rooms were labelled as being 14.13 square metres in size.
The company contacted the computer scientist David Kriesel to investigate this seemingly inconceivable result."
This inspired me to call on my new assistant, GPT, and put this together.