Bullshit Machines

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

What an obnoxious website. I'm not clicking through your silly javascript animated slideshow one sentence at a time just to read an article.

That's surely a professional, non-sensationalist, title that's appropriate for university professors.

Was this written in 2022?

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/

> 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.

A 10,000 word website about bullshit machines.

See what they did there ?

Clearly just an anti AI rant packaged up in a fancy suit.