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collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
"Mechanical psychics" is my new favorite term for LLMs.
"The intelligence illusion seems to be based on the same mechanism as that of a psychic’s con, often called *cold reading*. It looks like an accidental automation of the same basic tactic."
The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con
https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/