• Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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    3 days ago

    We (people in general) are dealing with two sets of crazy people, when it comes to AI:

    1. A crowd who overestimates AI capabilities. They often believe AI is “intelligent”, AGI is coming “soon”, AI will replace our jobs, the future is AI, all that babble.
    2. A crowd who believes generative models are only flash and smoke, a bubble that’ll burst and leave nothing behind. A Ponzi scheme of sorts.

    Both are wrong. And they’re wrong in the same way: failure to see tech as tech. And you often see criticism towards #1 (it’s fair!), but I’m glad to see criticism towards #2 (also fair!) popping up once in a while, like the author does.

    …case in point best usage case for LLMs is

    • the task is tedious, repetitive, basic. The info equivalent of cleaning dishes.
    • the amount of errors in the output is OK for its purpose.