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by zahlman 378 days ago
> the reduction of "intellgence" to "language" is a catagory error made by people falling vicim to the ELIZA effect[1], not the result of a sum of these particular statistical methods being equal real intelligence of any kind.

I sometimes wonder how many of the people most easily impressed with LLM outputs have actually seen or used ELIZA or similar systems.