Yessss people are seeing the light about #LLM like #ChatGPT

For the past couple of months, I’ve been working on an idea that I think explains the mechanism of this intelligence illusion.

I now believe that there is even less intelligence and reasoning in these LLMs than I thought before.

Many of the proposed use cases now look like borderline fraudulent pseudoscience to me.

https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/

The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep…

The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour

Out of the Software Crisis

@amydentata This whole time, I've been bemused by people surprised that a model that is trained to reproduce informal conversation comes up with empty statements.

It feels like a lot of AI folks underestimate the prevalence of phatic expressions in conversation.