Magic
{{A|g|[[File:Paul Daniels.jpg|450px|thumb|Just to manage your expectations, you won’t like this a lot.}}
- “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
- —Arthur C. Clarke’s third law
- “Any sufficiently primitive middle manager will be unable to distinguish a basic chatbot from magic.”
- —JC’s sixth law of worker entropy
Not artificial intelligence, machine learning or natural language processing, however much they might seem like it to primitive or unimaginative minds. Another kind of NLP — neuro-linguistic programming — may be, at least in the hands of Derren Brown, though I suspect a bit of amateur dramatics and camera trickery going on there too.