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As the other comment said, LLMs are not an abstraction.

An abstraction is a deterministic, pure function, than when given A always returns B. This allows the consumer to rely on the abstraction. This reliance frees up the consumer from having to implement the A->B, thus allowing it to move up the ladder.

LLMs, by their very nature are probabilistic. Probabilistic is NOT deterministic. Which means the consumer is never really sure if given A the returned value is B. Which means the consumer now has to check if the returned value is actually B, and depending on how complex A->B transformation is, the checking function is equivalent in complexity as implementing the said abstraction in the first place.

parent e3bc54b2 1 year ago

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