Do LLMs Dream of Pi?

Do LLMs dream of Pi? It’s a whimsical question in the vein of a Philip K. Dick story, exploring the meaning of artificial intelligence and reality itself. The reality we find ourselves in decades after Dick first wondered about electric dreams, a future containing large language models (LLMs) and chatbots, might offer new answers, or perhaps just better questions. I found a few of my own recently as I recalled a time when I was able to recite Pi out to many digits, basically on a dare, a few years ago. ...

September 1, 2026 · 12 min · Michael OShea