Bullshit Machines

(thebullshitmachines.com)

23 points | by Arodex 8 hours ago

9 comments

  • MarkusQ 31 minutes ago
    It's nice to see someone else that recognizes that the Emperor is naked. I find it somewhat disturbing how many people seem to fall for the Eliza-effect illusion that LLMs are thinking.
  • redlewel 2 hours ago
    horrible design on the website please just give me a block of text to read
  • dTal 3 hours ago
    What an obnoxious website. I'm not clicking through your silly javascript animated slideshow one sentence at a time just to read an article.
  • thegrim33 3 hours ago
    That's surely a professional, non-sensationalist, title that's appropriate for university professors.
  • jrflo 5 hours ago
    Was this written in 2022?
    • shric 4 hours ago
      Looks like early 2025. Anything in it in particular that you see as comically out of date?
  • Arodex 8 hours ago
    From the same authors of "Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World"[0], Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West.

    [0]https://callingbullshit.org/

  • kerblang 6 hours ago
    > One computer scientist speculated that his LLM had attained sentience.

    > How did he reach that conclusion? Basically, he asked “Are you conscious?”, the machine responded “Yes”, and that was that.

    Oh, come on now. This is referring to Blake Lemoine, and while I doubt his conclusions, he wasn't being as simplistic as all that. He's not completely stupid.

  • damnitbuilds 8 hours ago
    A 10,000 word website about bullshit machines.

    See what they did there ?

  • wewewedxfgdf 6 hours ago
    Clearly just an anti AI rant packaged up in a fancy suit.