• ExtantHuman@lemm.ee
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    7 days ago

    Not understanding how to use new technology, even flawed ones, isn’t a flex

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      I understand LLMs well enough that I really don’t want to use them because they are inherently incapable of judging the validity of information they are passing along.

      Sometimes it’s wrong. Sometimes it’s right. But they don’t tell you when they’re wrong, and to find out if they were wrong, you now have to do the research you were trying to avoid in the first place.

      I tried programming with it once, because a friend insisted it was good. But it wasn’t, and it was extremly confidend, while being exceptionally wrong.

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        Congrats, then don’t use it to validate information.

        LLMs are incredible text generators. But if you are going to judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, then you are never going to find its potential.

        Yes, there are tons of bogus AI implementations. But that doesn’t say anything about the validity of the technology. Look at what VLC is doing with it for example.

        It is pretty clear by those statements that you understand LLMs less than what you claim.

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        But it wasn’t, and it was extremly confidend, while being exceptionally wrong.

        TIL I’m a LLM

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        Yeah using it for that reason would be using it wrong. They’re pretty decent at name/description generation. That type of thing. Or it can point you to where to actually look to figure things out - almost like having it design a teaching plan.

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      Yeah thats called ignorance and we shouldn’t be celebrating it.