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by ddalex 473 days ago
Any sufficiently advanced regex is indistinguishable from AI.
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Even simple regex ones, since we don't know if they were created by a human or an AI.
With enough if statements, you could create a LLM.
I'm trying to think of a funny way to cite Clark's Law, but failing...
Regexes occasionally get called "black magic", and there is is an inverse of Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
I think you meant “any sufficiently commoditized magic is indistinguishable from technology”, or “any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science.”