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You missed the point.

> Simply put, these companies have fallen for a confidence trick. They have built on centuries of received wisdom about the efficacy and reliability of computers, and have been drawn in by highly effective salespeople selling scarcely-believable technological wonders.

Calculators are ok, but LLMs are not calculators.

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I see what you mean - it wasn't intended to be a parallel to mechanical calculators.

However, the title implies that they were a trick - otherwise why is the "confidence trick" 400 years old?

I feel like this kind of imprecise use of language is what makes it difficult to interact with LLMs in a meaningful way - perhaps that is the reason the author seems to dismiss the value of them.

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