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I wonder if people will ever realize that random text generators generate random things?

That is, the idea of LLM-based "AI agents" is one of the stupidest ideas in human history.

Hilariously, the theory of mind philosphers working in the 1990s through early 2000s showed that statistical word choice (what LLMs do) could not possibly do what humans do. It was not, and could not ever be, a theory of intelligence or AI.

Yet this is the basis that the whole AI industry stands on.