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The first item is also why it's good to be skeptical about things you learn on video sharing services like YouTube too. If you sound credible and present your i
by CM30 3y ago
The first item is also why it's good to be skeptical about things you learn on video sharing services like YouTube too. If you sound credible and present your ideas in a professional way, people will take them seriously regardless of how flawed they might be. In a world where a fair few 'essayists' have been exposed for just reading Wikipedia articles and Reddit posts, it's definitely good to try and not associate how people present their ideas with how accurate said ideas are.
I'd also expand on point 10 to add that talking to these people often gives you a better picture of what problems your software/dev work is trying to solve, and can help you identify pain points that you may not have noticed yourself. Remember that with a (very few) exceptions, software isn't written for the sake of it, it's written to solve problems.
Either way, nice list! Definitely has some useful advice there.
- I_Am_Nous 3y agoThis comment just made me consider LLMs as similar to the essayists you mentioned - they read the "right" answer somewhere on the internet/during training and then can regurgitate it in a way that makes sense without consideration of how true it is in practice.
- yen223 3y agoHumans were hallucinating responses given a prompt long before LLMs were a thing. Just look at any comment thread.
- I_Am_Nous 3y agoCertainly! It's generally considered a negative trait for LLMs to hallucinate but to say a writer is doing the same thing is kind of just implying they are a bad writer with a surface level understanding of their topic. I believe it's the confident delivery that's the issue, or the improper logical synthesis of ideas because they "seem" to be related.
- CM30 3y agoNot even the right answer much of the time, just information that sorta matches the right patterns as requested by the user. But LLMs say things in such an authorative, intelligent seeming way that it's indeed easy to forget they have no idea what they're actually saying or how accurate it is at all...