Statistical illusion

Baldur Bjarnason, author of the excellent “The intelligence illusion”, on business risks of Generative AI (recommended!):

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.

(From: The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con)

In his post, Baldur warns us once again not to imagine functionality that doesn't exist, he says it's all a ‘statistical illusion’.

Hidde de Vries (@hdv@front-end.social) is a web enthusiast and accessibility specialist from Rotterdam (The Netherlands). He currently works with the NL Design System team and is a participant in the Open UI Community Group. Previously, he worked for W3C (WAI), Mozilla, the Dutch government and others as a freelancer. Hidde spoke at 65 events, most recently in Leeds, UK.

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