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 AI is the latest boondoggle they have hitched themselves to in a desperate bid to keep the infinite growth machine going as it smokes and throws sparks and the grinding noises are getting louder and louder
@antimu0n @anandamide it's interesting to me also how much of the past 7-10 years of large-stakes tech investment is *directly* attached to "density of vector-processing computronim" generally and Nvidia GPU and API specifically.
@stripey @anandamide
it's almost like they desperately needed to find a new purpose for a giant pile of surplus GPUs after the the last crypto bust, and what do you know here comes AI to solve all the problems they tell us we didn't know we had