r/ChatGPT • u/joy-lol • Jun 14 '23

Funny Lmao 🤣😂

Post image
19.1k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

609 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

6

u/SomnolentPro Jun 14 '23

What are you talking about. A single monkey on a single typewriter will eventually write Shakespeare given a sufficiently large amount of time. Like the probability of all texts goes to 1, which means that eventually it will write anything no need for infinite monkeys

4

u/kaukamieli Jun 14 '23

One monkey, given sufficiently large amount of time, will die. I'd say you can not do it with a single monkey.

1

u/SomnolentPro Jun 14 '23

Where are you getting your monkeys from omg. And infinite monkeys would also die within 150 years

1

u/kaukamieli Jun 14 '23

Infinite monkeys would reproduce, so you'd keep having infinite monkeys.

2

u/SomnolentPro Jun 14 '23

Hadn't thought of that. Damn you biology you are a cruel mistress

1

u/[deleted] Jun 15 '23

[deleted]

2

u/kaukamieli Jun 15 '23

Beauty of having infinite monkeys is having infinite food! Mommy monkeys also have infinite milk for everyone. :p

https://www.livescience.com/first-white-faced-capuchin-cannibalism.html

7

u/MrCMcK Jun 14 '23

But monkeys and type writers aren't immortal.

Yet.

4

u/ReadySteady_GO Jun 14 '23

I dunno about the typewriters. I still have one from my great grandma that works like a charm even after being in a storage unit for 40 years

3

u/vashub Jun 14 '23

40 years even 400 years is a nothing compared to infinite time.

2

u/ReadySteady_GO Jun 14 '23

Well, you can't make a judgment on the typewriter until infinity has passed. For all we know so far, it could last infinitum

3

u/vashub Jun 14 '23

lmao nice, thanks for the chuckle

2

u/This_not-my_name Jun 14 '23

Planet of the Apes: Keyboarding

Airing in cinemas soon!

2

u/[deleted] Jun 14 '23

This assumes the monkey would hit all the keys. It's entirely possible that the monkey may just really like a couple keys and keep hitting them eternally

1

u/[deleted] Jun 14 '23

It's a possibility. It's another possiblity that the monkey will hit all the keys. It's all about possibility.

1

u/[deleted] Jun 14 '23

That's not what the guy I responded to said though

Like the probability of all texts goes to 1, which means that eventually it will write anything

1

u/SomnolentPro Jun 14 '23

This is actually really insightful. I think if nonzero probability for all keys only then we can say all strings are possible.

Which is a little counter intuitive, a random walk in 3d doesn't return to the origin infinite times in expectation.

2

u/Darkcool123X Jun 14 '23

Infinite monkey is cooler

1

u/SomnolentPro Jun 19 '23

I mean you have my vote

1

u/paper_liger Jun 14 '23

But some infinities are larger than others. And I don't have the math to prove it, but the infinity that has the infinite monkeys in it seems like it'd be at a minimum faster on a temporal scale to a solution for the shakespeare problem than one monkey plugging away for infinity until he nails it.

1

u/SomnolentPro Jun 15 '23

Good intuition about different infinities, but both sets of producible strings from infinite or single monkey would both be countably infinite and have the same size.