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> For most users, its magical. It doesn't take marketing for them to start thinking this thing is "reasoning" or "thinking" after just spending a few minutes ta

• andybak 2y ago
  It's even stranger than that. I can go from full awareness of the nature and limitations of LLMs one minute, the treating it like an almost sentient oracle the next. It's constant struggle to remain aware of what it really is under the covers because we're just so used to engaging with language creation entities as if they had minds
  • saalweachter 2y ago
    LLMs are fantastic tools for creating demos that are just absolutely magical, a glimpse of the future. It's only when you need to iterate on quality and go from "amazing" to "correct" that you start seeing how limited they are.
    • andybak 2y ago
      That's a false dichotomy. There's a huge range of applications that fall between "just a demo" and "must be reliably correct". They are just harder to productize for a broad market.