Starting a short thread on #LLM #AI #Chatbots ...

A friend asked me to read and respond to a blog post by #UgoBardi, a scientist and activist of some note. I did and ended up writing a short essay about it. Here is a link to the original Bardi/Claude post for reference: https://livingearth.substack.com/p/your-voice-your-choice-a-post-by

The first and major criticism is 👉 THERE IS NO "I" THERE.👈 We are so used to the conceit of these systems referring to themselves in the first person that we are put off our guard. Consider this...

"The ELIZA Effect is a tendency to project human traits—such as experience, semantic comprehension or empathy—onto rudimentary computer programs having a textual interface." [Wikipedia]

#Claude by #Anthropic is no longer "rudimentary" like the original ELIZA from 1966, but the effect is still there!

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https://richard.mdpaths.com/commentary/non_human_intelligence/index.html