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Screenshot from a blog post: Is this intentional? Given that there are billions of dollars at stake in the tech industry, it would be tempting to assume that the statistical illusion of intelligence was intentionally created by people in the tech industry. I personally think that’s extraordinarily unlikely. A popular response to various government conspiracy theories is that government institutions just aren’t that good at keeping secrets. Well, the tech industry just isn’t that good at software. This illusion is, honestly, too clever to have been created intentionally by those making it. The field of AI research has a reputation for disregarding the value of other fields, so I’m certain that this reimplementation of a psychic’s con is entirely accidental. It’s likely that, being unaware of much of the research in psychology on cognitive biases or how a psychic’s con works, they stumbled into a mechanism and made chatbots that fooled many of the chatbot makers themselves. Remember what I wrote above about psychics frequently having conned themselves, that many of them aren’t even aware of their own scam? The same applies here. I think this is an industry that didn’t understand what it was doing and, now, doesn’t understand what it did. That’s why so many people in tech are completely and utterly convinced that they have created the first spark of true Artificial General Intelligence.