"Taken together, these flaws make LLMs look less like an information technology and more like a modern mechanisation of the psychic hotline."
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of course I practice for voice acting, thats what cold reads are for.
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I think some of you (indefinite) need to learn about cold reading again so you don't get scammed
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https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/cheryl-murphy-is-it-a-new-psychic/
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Reading palms at parties...
I used to get paid to read palms at parties. I didn’t believe in it. I knew there was nothing special about lines on someone’s hand. I was just doing it for the money, and because I occasionally got to hold a pretty lady’s hand.
In my defense, I always told people it was “for entertainment purposes only”. Still, many of them took it seriously anyway. At some events, I would perform magic shows followed by palm reading, and people would still take the palm reading seriously, even though they had just seen me do card tricks for an hour. No one ever seemed to realize that I was a professional liar...
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I found this article very interesting. The core hypothesis is that a lot of the hype around LLM chatbots exists because we have inadvertently trained them to do a lot of the same things that stage psychics and cold readers do. It feels like there is more to them because we've taught them to trick us into feeling that there's something there.
Aside from all the horrifying problems this is causing and will cause, I think that's a pretty funny thing to have done accidentally.
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