Fascinating article comparing interactions with LLMs to interactions with a psychic doing cold readings, and …

Fascinating article comparing interactions with LLMs to interactions with a psychic doing cold readings, and how the same mechanisms that create the illusion of mind-reading for the audience can create the illusion of actual understanding, even for the people building the chatbots.

https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/

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