• merc@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    “Buy a Satnav, it’ll get you anywhere!”

    “That satnav drove a woman into a lake!”

    The lesson here is that you should use it as a tool but not trust everything it says blindly.

    Guess what people do with ChatGPT? They ask it a question, then trust what it answers blindly.

    but if you use tools right, 10,000 years of human history says that’s helpful.

    Not every tool is useful. LLMs are the Tobacco Enemas of the modern world. They’re not very useful, but fast-talking salesman keep conning people into thinking they are.

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      6 days ago

      I totally agree, they’re a tool, use em for what they’re useful for and don’t believe the hype.

      As a glorified grammer checker, for example, they’re useful.

      If I feed it as essay and ask for examples of where it cites a particular theory, that’s useful.