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This is fine because LLMs are a dead end. If LLMs are the core of 'AI' then I'm not interested, but I feel confident they're a sideshow on the way to stronger
by dkjaudyeqooe 2y ago
This is fine because LLMs are a dead end.
If LLMs are the core of 'AI' then I'm not interested, but I feel confident they're a sideshow on the way to stronger AI.
Lets avoid the huge mistake that was made with the internet, where the web happened to be the first broadly useful tool which exploded in popularity and then de facto became the internet, with everything shoehorned into it. The problem is, on the scale of possible interfaces and software, the web is absolute shite, but now its gravity is too great and we can't escape it.
I've tried to use LLMs but they're just not useful. Getting answers that may be great or may be nonsense just doesn't work for me. I know there is something better and I won't be distracted by a very impressive novelty.
- throwup238 2y agoI don't think they're a dead end, they're just a very small piece of a much bigger puzzle. LLMs are to AI what word2vec was to machine learning - it's the key to encoding language in a way that algorithms can operate on but they need to be connected to a bunch of other systems to really be useful. I think it'll be a while before we perfect memory, neuroplasticity, the physical experimentation feedback loop, etc. but LLMs at least give us a way to represent and manipulate human language.
- dkjaudyeqooe 2y ago> just a very small piece of a much bigger puzzle I agree with that, but plenty of people are talking about LLMs as the precursor to AGI, especially the OpenAI crowd. Plenty of people here and elsewhere say that LLMs are actually intelligent. I think LLMs are an important illustration of what's possible, but it's not the one true way.