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No Damned Computer is Going to Tell Me What to DO

That is the best title for a story about replacing analog and mechanical instruments with digital computers. A similar process is happening now with natural intelligence, replacing or augmenting the human intellect.

An interesting resource I just found:

The analog computer museum - https://www.analogmuseum.org/english/

It has a Library section with lots of downloadable articles in German and English.

A similar process is happening now with natural intelligence

LLMs are not AI.

Correct. Neither are computers, analog machines, or mathematics.

I'm on your side, human comrade. No damn computer is going to tell me what to do!

I said it because, the behavior of LLMs only appear to mimic intelligence only very superficially. Even without going "behind the curtain", and by only examining the behavior of LLMs slightly deeply, the illusion of this intelligent behavior break down.

Intelligent behavior need to be consistent. You need only a single instance of non-intelligent behavior to prove that an entity is not intelligent.

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