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I’m increasingly seeing ChatGPT as a single LLM application being conflated with an entire domain or industry. And plenty of schadenfreude. Including many comme

I’m increasingly seeing ChatGPT as a single LLM application being conflated with an entire domain or industry. And plenty of schadenfreude. Including many comments on this site. The universe of LLM-driven applications is rapidly expanding, many of them chat-related, others not. Even if ChatGPT is losing its shine, we’re only at the start of a massive reinvention of user interfaces, creation of new tools for reasoning, semi-autonomous decision making, and far more. Sure there’s hype. But the reductive saltiness doesn’t add much to the conversation.

echohack5 3y ago
I'm still having trouble seeing LLMs more than a glorified python script that processes enormous data sets. I find their usefulness still less useful than 2005 google when knowing how to use quotation marks. Not to mention that those data sets are typically Reddit, Twitter, Github, etc. Why and how is that superior than just... searching the original data set? Could it just be that the "enshittification" of the way we find information on the net gives LLMs a use case?
- lacrimacida 3y ago
  You could use it for other things too and if what you’re describing could be done more efficiently in python then it’s the wrong problem to solve on LLMs.
lacrimacida 3y ago
That goes with each hype cycle of a new technology. Is this special in any way? Perhaps it will unlock a certain problem space, surely so. I do understand the iritation when discussion is so abundant that it veers nearly recommending one another to spread it on bread and eat it. I’ve been playing with certain aspects of ChatGPT and it’s quite capable and useful for what I need and no other tool before could do it. Thing is that I could do everything Im asking it to do for me now but manually. This enables me to do creative tasks that I would’ve been too lazy to complete before.

echohack5 3y ago

I'm still having trouble seeing LLMs more than a glorified python script that processes enormous data sets. I find their usefulness still less useful than 2005 google when knowing how to use quotation marks. Not to mention that those data sets are typically Reddit, Twitter, Github, etc. Why and how is that superior than just... searching the original data set? Could it just be that the "enshittification" of the way we find information on the net gives LLMs a use case?

lacrimacida 3y ago
You could use it for other things too and if what you’re describing could be done more efficiently in python then it’s the wrong problem to solve on LLMs.

lacrimacida 3y ago

That goes with each hype cycle of a new technology. Is this special in any way? Perhaps it will unlock a certain problem space, surely so. I do understand the iritation when discussion is so abundant that it veers nearly recommending one another to spread it on bread and eat it. I’ve been playing with certain aspects of ChatGPT and it’s quite capable and useful for what I need and no other tool before could do it. Thing is that I could do everything Im asking it to do for me now but manually. This enables me to do creative tasks that I would’ve been too lazy to complete before.