Bullshit Machines

(thebullshitmachines.com)

23 points | by Arodex 9 hours ago ago

10 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 3 hours ago

    horrible design on the website please just give me a block of text to read

  • dTal 4 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 6 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 Anything in it in particular that you see as comically out of date?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 9 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.