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Yes, they do have use. They are also very oversold and literally being sold for jobs they cannot do. It does help write things that were either formulaic or en
by blamestross 3y ago
Yes, they do have use. They are also very oversold and literally being sold for jobs they cannot do.
It does help write things that were either formulaic or entirely without real content.
Allowing them to do analysis or summary of anything that isn't already in a Wikipedia entry is radically dangerous because of how good they are at hallucinating and lying (and we can't detect that at scale). It is like an automated "yes man". This is the most dangerous bubble in living memory and the cost of it popping will be in the failure of any industry that is foolish enough to rely on them at scale.
And to attack that study in particular, "help people who couldn't write well write better" is complicated, increasing accessibility is good, but there is a BIG difference in an increase in writing quality versus an increase in productivity AND correctness.
- ETH_start 3y agoEverything new is going to be oversold. That is not an indictment of the technology, although it's also fair to point that out to counteract the exaggerated perceptions that the overselling creates. Putting aside all of the hype, LLM are already providing enormous productivity boosts in some activities, and those boosts can be fairly characterized as revolutionary when you consider how significant they are and how quickly they came about since GPT2.