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Thought-provoking ideas in chapter 2 of @emilymbender and @alex's The AI Con:

- Weizenbaum's ELIZA was meant to show that producing language does NOT imply thought.

- Babies don't learn language from passive exposure, so whatever LLMs are doing is fundamentally different.

- The notion of AGI is tied to the old racist notions associated with IQ tests. (I've thought of the G in AGI as meaning "not limited to a particular task", but rating relative intelligence has this issue.)

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