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Oracle is a better word for this than religion for what you are talking about. Maybe people should remember how notoriously tricky oracles were even in their be

Oracle is a better word for this than religion for what you are talking about. Maybe people should remember how notoriously tricky oracles were even in their believer's eyes (the "an empire shall fall" story. This video is about people who believe ChatGPT (or another LLM) is a sentient being sent to us by aliens or the future to save us. LLM saviour is pretty close to a religious belief. A pretty weird one, but still. > o get a reality check, open up 3-4 different models (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.), and ask them topics you know really well, and questions you already know the answers to. And see that maybe a quarter, or 25% will fail somewhat. I have tried this a bit with ChatGPT, and yes, there are a lot of issues. Things such as literally true but misleading answers, incomplete information, and a lack of commonsense.

kelseyfrog 1y ago
Besides, the debate on oracularizing AI is much more fun than endlessly debating the meaning of consciousness. People place plenty of trust in astrology, tarot, and I Ching without requiring they have an subjective experience. If anything, there's a tendency of technologists to have a blind spot identifying AI as such. The dismissal and sometimes contempt held for divination makes it genuinely difficult to recognize it when it's not decked out in stars and moons. It's interesting if anything that the Barnum principle applies in both cases.