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They don’t convince themselves. They’re convinced by the multi billion dollar corporations pouring unholy amounts of money into not only the development of AI, but its marketing. Marketing designed to not only convince them that AI is something it’s not, but also that that anyone who says otherwise (like you) are just luddites who are going to be “left behind”.
LLMs are also very good at convincing their users that they know what they are saying.
It's what they're really selected for. Looking accurate sells more than being accurate.
I wouldn't be surprised if many of the people selling LLMs as AI have drunk their own kool-aid (of course most just care about the line going up, but still).
It's no surprise to me that the person at work who is most excited by AI, is the same person who is most likely to be replaced by it.
Yeah the excitement comes from the fact that they’re thinking of replacing themselves and keeping the money. They don’t get to “Step 2” in theirs heads lmao.