As a one-time committee member on Skeptics in the Pub, there are a lot of things in life that *demonstrably* Do Not Work, never did work, and can be proved not to ever be possible, which all the same, billions of people are very impressed by.
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@Ferk Ah, I see.
I suppose so.
As a one-time committee member on Skeptics in the Pub, there are a lot of things in life that *demonstrably* Do Not Work, never did work, and can be proved not to ever be possible, which all the same, billions of people are very impressed by.
Homeopathy is my go-to example – see:
https://www.howdoeshomeopathywork.com/
This is true of all Supplementary, Complementary and Alternative Medicine. It’s all a S.C.A.M. ;-)
But it goes much further. Gods, for example. All 100% made up.
And yet…
Homeopathy is 100% a scam. LLMs are just overhyped. Big difference.