Baldur Bjarnason argues that chatbots can create an impression of specific intelligence through fluent, confident responses that resemble a mentalist's cold-reading techniques.

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"Baldur Bjarnason argues that chatbots can create an impression of specific intelligence through fluent, confident responses that resemble a mentalist’s cold-reading techniques."

Bjarnason describes an apparent intelligence effect in which statistically generic language can feel personally relevant and authoritative. His mechanical-mentalist analogy supports the book's distinction between outputs that sound knowledgeable and outputs whose factual correctness has actually been established.

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Source title The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con

Source authors Baldur Bjarnason

Source year 2023

Confidence high

Importance mid