#stochasticparrot — Public Fediverse posts

Wow! It thinks!! No, it doesn't. AI is a con.

I recently read that companionship and therapy ranked as the leading generative-AI use cases in #HBR's 2026 analysis. Unsurprising, I guess. AI is more like #astrology and #tarot (fun!) than an interaction with any form of actual machine intelligence.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-happens-when-ai-chatbots-replace-real-human-connection/

https://hbr.org/2026/06/how-people-are-really-using-ai-in-2026

This piece takes it further:

Chat-based #LLMs don't exhibit intelligence—they reproduce the mechanism of a psychic's con (cold reading). The illusion of insight lives in the user's mind, not the model. Responses that feel eerily specific are actually statistically generic continuations of the prompt.

https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist

#stochasticparrot

Wow! It thinks!! No, it doesn't. AI is a con.

I recently read that companionship and therapy ranked as the leading generative-AI use cases in #HBR's 2026 analysis. Unsurprising, I guess. AI is more like #astrology and #tarot (fun!) than an interaction with any form of actual machine intelligence.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-happens-when-ai-chatbots-replace-real-human-connection/

https://hbr.org/2026/06/how-people-are-really-using-ai-in-2026

This piece takes it further:

Chat-based #LLMs don't exhibit intelligence—they reproduce the mechanism of a psychic's con (cold reading). The illusion of insight lives in the user's mind, not the model. Responses that feel eerily specific are actually statistically generic continuations of the prompt.

https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist

#stochasticparrot

Wow! It thinks!! No, it doesn't. AI is a con.

I recently read that companionship and therapy ranked as the leading generative-AI use cases in #HBR's 2026 analysis. Unsurprising, I guess. AI is more like #astrology and #tarot (fun!) than an interaction with any form of actual machine intelligence.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-happens-when-ai-chatbots-replace-real-human-connection/

https://hbr.org/2026/06/how-people-are-really-using-ai-in-2026

This piece takes it further:

Chat-based #LLMs don't exhibit intelligence—they reproduce the mechanism of a psychic's con (cold reading). The illusion of insight lives in the user's mind, not the model. Responses that feel eerily specific are actually statistically generic continuations of the prompt.

https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist

#stochasticparrot

Wow! It thinks!! No, it doesn't. AI is a con.

I recently read that companionship and therapy ranked as the leading generative-AI use cases in #HBR's 2026 analysis. Unsurprising, I guess. AI is more like #astrology and #tarot (fun!) than an interaction with any form of actual machine intelligence.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-happens-when-ai-chatbots-replace-real-human-connection/

https://hbr.org/2026/06/how-people-are-really-using-ai-in-2026

This piece takes it further:

Chat-based #LLMs don't exhibit intelligence—they reproduce the mechanism of a psychic's con (cold reading). The illusion of insight lives in the user's mind, not the model. Responses that feel eerily specific are actually statistically generic continuations of the prompt.

https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist

#stochasticparrot

Wow! It thinks!! No, it doesn't. AI is a con.

I recently read that companionship and therapy ranked as the leading generative-AI use cases in #HBR's 2026 analysis. Unsurprising, I guess. AI is more like #astrology and #tarot (fun!) than an interaction with any form of actual machine intelligence.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-happens-when-ai-chatbots-replace-real-human-connection/

https://hbr.org/2026/06/how-people-are-really-using-ai-in-2026

This piece takes it further:

Chat-based #LLMs don't exhibit intelligence—they reproduce the mechanism of a psychic's con (cold reading). The illusion of insight lives in the user's mind, not the model. Responses that feel eerily specific are actually statistically generic continuations of the prompt.

https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist

#stochasticparrot