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I've yet to see a serious study where there are measured improvements to QoL vis a vis workload, time required, etc. vs accuracy and fallibility issues that hav
by uoaei 3y ago
I've yet to see a serious study where there are measured improvements to QoL vis a vis workload, time required, etc. vs accuracy and fallibility issues that have been comprehensively demonstrated with the current crop of LLMs.
- extheat 3y agoI already have a massive improvement in productivity from GitHub Copilot that I don’t find it hard to imagine that fine tuned LLMs will be able to automate the bulk of mundane work in software (maybe even all of it). Programming, and other computer based activities that involve writing are the exact types of things that language models are good at.
- oulu2006 3y agoLuckily, I was just reading such a study a few days ago: https://www.itnews.com.au/news/westpac-sees-46-percent-productivity-gain-from-ai-coding-experiment-596423 https://www.itnews.com.au/news/westpac-sees-46-percent-produ...
- feyman_r 3y agoThat’s how folks initially thought of cars too - the accident rates, lack of speed etc. The point is, as a technology, this is going to change the future. It’s a valid point that the current state might be less than what you expect. The only way to improve it is to double down on it. Comparisons to crypto are a bit shallow - except that they both are ‘new’ technologies and need GPUs, there’s not much.
- khazhoux 3y agoYou are probably right that in the six months since the release of ChatGPT, we do not have academic surveys of the productivity gains of LLMs in real-world scenarios. But that is hardly the measure of a new technology.
- usaar333 3y agoOne was just posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36152510 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36152510