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Oracle is a better word for this than religion for what you are talking about. Maybe people should remember how notoriously tricky oracles were even in their believer's eyes (the "an empire shall fall" story.

This video is about people who believe ChatGPT (or another LLM) is a sentient being sent to us by aliens or the future to save us. LLM saviour is pretty close to a religious belief. A pretty weird one, but still.

> o get a reality check, open up 3-4 different models (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.), and ask them topics you know really well, and questions you already know the answers to. And see that maybe a quarter, or 25% will fail somewhat.

I have tried this a bit with ChatGPT, and yes, there are a lot of issues. Things such as literally true but misleading answers, incomplete information, and a lack of commonsense.






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