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The LLMentalist Effect

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

Though during this period he had nagging doubts about the physical basis of astrology, he was encouraged to continue with it by his many satisfied clients, who invariably found his readings “amazingly accurate” in describing their personal situations and problems. This means that many of the avid users of these chatbots are self-selected to be enthusiastic and open-minded about the field of AI and the notion of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)—that these technologies might lead to self-aware and self-improving reasoning systems. Once you’ve trained on most of the past twenty years of the web, large collections of stolen ebooks, all of Reddit, most of social media, and a substantial amount of custom interactions by low-wage workers, the model will have a response for almost everything you can think of, or can use a variation of something it’s already seen.

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