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Comment · 1 year ago
Unfortunately, the Gen AI hypesters are doing a lot to make it harder for people to attain literacy in this subdomain. People who are otherwise fairly digitally literate believe fantastical things about LLMs and it’s because they’re being force fed BS by those promoting these tools and the media outlets covering them.
Comment · 1 year ago
More of a bad thing is worse than less of a bad thing, right?
Comment · 1 year ago
“ This is the only time I've come across a task a child could do that LLM failed at.”

Consider yourself lucky. It’s the people who haven’t run into something like this that will end up placing too much trust in these tools.

Comment · 1 year ago
Luddite!!!
Comment · 1 year ago
It is not exactly like that. Junior coworkers mess up in fairly predictable ways.
Comment · 1 year ago
“as long as they are well substantiated”

Why does almost everyone act as if this is a valid thing to do? We all know that these models cannot verify that something is well substantiated. The mass delusion is crazy making.

Comment · 1 year ago
Good point. Also, the fact that I’m adamant that one cannot fly a helicopter to the moon doesn’t mean that I think helicopters are useless. That said, if I’m inundated everyday with people insisting that one CAN fly a helicopter to the moon or that that capability is just around the corner, I might get so fed up that i say F it, I don’t want to hear another F’ing word about helicopters even though I know that helicopters have utility.
Comment · 1 year ago
Totally agree. Now let me go play with this model I got off of Hugging Face
Comment · 1 year ago
Is this a setup??? :)

The guy two comments up wrote a great book on using pandas effectively. It’s called Effective Pandas

Comment · 1 year ago
Could have gotten a better deal for Crazy Eddie
Comment · 1 year ago
Well, different humans have different capabilities and we have to choose which one we want to talk to depending on what we are trying to accomplish. Therefore these tools are as good as or better than humans in every possible way. Stop being a hater. ;)
Comment · 1 year ago
And what’s the point you’re trying to make? If Russia was trying to drop bombs on DC and the US was trying to drop bombs on Moscow, would you think it strange for the US to try to prevent the bombs from being dropped on DC?
Comment · 1 year ago
I am shocked to learn that Gen AI does not produce reliably accurate information! Shocked, I say!
Comment · 1 year ago

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