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 surprised that article didn't mention Blake Lemoine, the google employee who galaxy brained himself into exactly that train of thought, much more literally than all the other LLM pushers who are more cynical but probably no less credulous