Oh god this is so believable. AI bros and Business Leaders have no interest in softer sciences, so they've Dunning-Krugered themselves into believing their googly-eyed autocomplete is a real boy

From 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
@anandamide At a tangent, A. L. Kennedy’s The Blue Book gives a brilliant insight into the psychic’s con and how easy it is to trick ourselves into seeing what we’re want to see. https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-blue-book-a-l-kennedy/3271963?ean=9780099555469 #bookstodon