If a thousand monkeys typed at a character per second, on a keyboard with the 23 relevant characters, it would take roughly 10^136 years for them to come up with this counterexample. Though, to be fair to monkey scenario, there's a large family of them known now, so it's not quite this bad: suppose there are a trillion permutations and similar examples that fit in this string. Then we are down to 10^124 years.
If LLMs are monkeys, somehow trained LLM weights allow them to model and prune massive numbers of universes in parallel.
Just FTR - 1 character per second is glacially slow - it's 12 wpm - fine for (slow) transcription, but the monkey typing exercise doesn't require them to know what they are typing out
Considering it's random characters being typed, and a skilled typist who is aiming to accurately type words out can hit between 70 and 100 words per minute - I would say that my monkeys could "type" an order of magnitude faster than 1 char per second
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48231974