Chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con

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LLMs are a mathematical model of language tokens. That psychic is the real thing! ” The psychic ends the conversation and the mark is left with the sense that the psychic has uncanny powers. With enough knowledge of common statistics, the psychic can make general statements that sound incredibly specific to the mark.

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