#OhNoWereGonnaNeedAnotherTimmy

2025-11-01

@Tattie I often use this when trying to explain LLMs to people

#AI #LLM #OhNoWereGonnaNeedAnotherTimmy

Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social 22h
¢. It turns out this whole time that the Turing
Test was the wrong way to think of it.
Thinking a chatbot is alive is not a test of
how good the chatbot is, but of your own
ability to think of other human beings as real
and complete people

Greg Stolze @gregstolze.bsky.social 11h
"I heard some professor put googly eyes on
a pencil and waved it at his class saying "HI!
I'm Tim the pencil! | love helping children
with their homework but my favorite is
drawing pictures!"
Then, without warning, he snapped the pencil
in half.

 Greg Stolze
.  (@gregstolze.bsky.social
When half his college students gasped,
he said "THAT'S where all this Al
hype comes from. We're not good at
programming consciousness. But we're
GREAT at imagining non-concious things
are people.”
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