The Day the Earth Stood Still Reaction!
Added 2025-11-01 15:09:25 +0000 UTC
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As I mentioned below, although I had the idea that there was a Doctor Who scene that was similar to the Klaatu/Barnhardt's blackboard introduction, I couldn't pin it down. I have been using some of the LLM AI tools for work and also to do some mathematical analysis for a personal project. So I decided to ask Google Gemini to see if it could help - TL;DR it hallucinates a lot. BTW: afterwards I asked the same query to ChatGPT and it had a similar amount of hallucinations. Here is a link to an edited version of my discussion. https://who.ad-lunam.com/Gemini-1.html I present it because my discussion might bring back memories of some Doctor Who episodes. It turned out the LLMs were of no help - I eventually recalled the scene myself.
Andrew Vignaux
2025-11-07 14:40:22 +0000 UTCGot it! I recalled the Doctor Who scene I was thinking of that had the echo of Klaatu leaving the answer on Professor Barnhardt's blackboard. Scene: The Doctor (without his sonic or anything and a new face) has to try to convince the people on the video-conference that he is legit. So he quickly types in stuff like a proof of Fermat's theorem and faster-than-light-travel ... "Look at your screens. Whoever I am, I'm a genius. Look at the sun. You need all the help you can get. Fellas, pay attention.", The Doctor, "The Eleventh Hour"
Andrew Vignaux
2025-11-02 00:16:05 +0000 UTC
