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The LLMentalist Effect (2023)

235 points · 309 comments · jalev

  1. natbennett · · focus · HN ↗
    > Delegating your decision-making, ranking, assessment, strategising, analysis, or any other form of reasoning to a chatbot becomes the functional equivalent to phoning a psychic for advice.

    Lots of comments talking about how recent accomplishments disprove the article but I think this bit holds up pretty well.

    LLMs are very good at tricking people into thinking they have capabilities that they don’t.

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