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I am a product designer and literally every conversation I have now has everyone asking can we use an LLM here? They will be everywhere before long.
by looseyesterday 3y ago
I am a product designer and literally every conversation I have now has everyone asking can we use an LLM here? They will be everywhere before long.
- sanxiyn 3y agoI guess asking "can we use an LLM here" is natural, but how often is the answer yes?
- onion2k 3y agohow often is the answer yes? Always, if the next question is "how much?"
- marginalia_nu 3y agoA more interesting question is should we use an LLM here. There's undeniably a lot of work being done in this area, but so much of it is just ill conceived shovelware in an attempt to make it big in the gold rush. We get like a dozen "Show HN" posts a day where there's a service that basically prefixes an input with a prompt and bounces it off ChatGPT and returns the response. There's also no doubt interesting products to be built using this new technology. But I don't think it's going to be made by just gluing 2-3 APIs together. If you can do that, someone else can do it too. That's not a business model. Being the first to do something means very little.
- armchairhacker 3y ago"Can you do this without an LLM, using just regular coding?" LLM to solve math problems, implement API requests, etc. = hard no LLM to solve challenging constraint problems or statistical problems where we already have a good solution (A*, heuristics, really clever algorithms) = no LLM to solve challenging problems where we don't have a good solution (medical diagnostics, legalese, manual translation of badly-formatted data) = yes... (people will disagree but if the LLM does these better than a human, it does these better than a human - and if not, the humans will almost definitely benefit from using an LLM) LLM to do something with natural language, like implement a chatbot, explain something, cheap therapy = hard yes
- qsort 3y agoI agree with your breakdown. The problem, however, is that your third point is where the vast majority of the potential usefulness of LLM lies, but simultaneously where integration with other systems is highly non-trivial, hence my "calm your proverbial tits" position on the issue.
- loa_in_ 3y agoThe vast majority of market value maybe, mass adoptability perhaps. But the biggest value is in the fourth point because it doesn't improve a product, these things were basically unavailable until now!
- postsantum 3y agoWe had a similar situation with blockchain a few years ago
- rqtwteye 3y agoThe difference is that LLM has a lot of use cases where it can be enormously productive. Blockchain has never had such a use case.
- civilitty 3y agoNonsense! The blockchain enabled lots of use cases that weren’t accessible to the average person before. For example: buying drugs, getting fake passports, hiring hitmen, and selling drugs.
- Avicebron 3y agobuying stadiums in Florida, gambling imaginary money, moving money to your dad to pay for your inevitable legal bills, buying league skins, the list is endless.
- postsantum 3y agoThe only thing that really worried me was effective altruism. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of a changing world for the better binge
- Avicebron 3y agoI think anyone familiar with effective altruism's roots in utilitarianism was rightly immediately concerned about it, especially how it currently seems to be manifested. Never forget Jeremy Bentham proposed the Panopticon.
- Applejinx 3y agoWe can't stop here. This is changing world for the better country!
- sidewndr46 3y agoI'm just imagining conversations where you suggest something like "We could add a checkbox so the user can toggle off this feature if they find it problematic." and someone responds with "Could we use Chat GPT for that?"
- have_faith 3y agoSomeone needs to remake http://conferencecall.biz http://conferencecall.biz but with lots of AI references thrown in.
- croes 3y agoWill be fun time if all mind of software integrates this black boxes. Every update will have a risk of breaking things without the possibility to test like with unit tests.