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While that is true, LLMs are (like blockchains) difficult to understand for laypeople, and this is (as it was with blockchains) used to compel gullible investor
by marginalia_nu 4y ago
While that is true, LLMs are (like blockchains) difficult to understand for laypeople, and this is (as it was with blockchains) used to compel gullible investors with FOMO to invest in some highly questionable enterprises that make no goddamn sense.
- Workaccount2 4y agoChatGPT passes the "my mom can use it" test with flying colors. It's extremely accessible.
- bamboozled 4y ago“Mum why did you sell our family home at half the price it’s worth ?!?!, ChatGPT told me it was a good price son!!!”
- marginalia_nu 4y agoRight, now try to explain to her how it works.
- teucris 4y agoDoes the average person generally understand how the internet works? The economy? Their own muscles? We understand things enough to know how to use them. Yes, this means the unknown parts can be used to scam people, but that’s true with anything.
- marginalia_nu 4y agoWe did see a lot of that scam artistry with regards to the Internet. That was the Dot Com bubble. The two necessary components seem to be novelty/hype and inscrutable inner workings.
- Tostino 4y ago"It's an overpowered autocomplete that was trained to have a conversation rather than completing your thoughts."
- jimbokun 4y agoThis Economist article is an excellent explainer.
- bugglebeetle 4y agoMy extremely technically-challenged mom called me out of the blue to tell me about how she was using ChatGPT at work, which was my “holy shit” moment with LLMs.
- arlcode 4y agoI'm curious. If you are willing to talk about it what did she use it for?
- bugglebeetle 4y agoShe has a learning disability from a TBI she sustained as a kid and has a hard time writing long documents. Most of her work doesn’t involve doing this, but when she does, she can now draft an outline and have ChatGPT help her flesh things out.
- arlcode 4y agoThat's a terrific use case. I love seeing technology enabling people to do things they weren't able to do before. Especially if it's technology about which I'm still somewhat sceptical.
- MaKey 4y ago"holy shit" in the sense of "holy shit, soon everything will get polluted by hallucinated but convincingly sounding bullshit"? LLMs hallucinate so you have to check everything they spit out. But their outputs sound convincing and people are lazy...