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The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con

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

The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con Out of the Software Crisis The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con By Baldur Bjarnason, July 4th, 2023 For the past year or so I’ve been spending most of my time researching the use of language and diffusion models in software businesses. One of the issues in during this research—one that has perplexed me—has been that many people are convinced that language models, or specifically chat-based language models, are intelligent.

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