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Personally, I and people I've spoken with use LLMs less and less because of how often they're wrong. The other day I asked ChatGPT about a specific built-in me
by chankstein38 2y ago
Personally, I and people I've spoken with use LLMs less and less because of how often they're wrong. The other day I asked ChatGPT about a specific built-in method in Java and it told me that it couldn't do one specific thing. I was already using it in that context so I pushed back and it said "Oh yeah you're right, sorry"
I feel like I can't trust anything it says. Mostly I use it to parse things I don't understand and then do my own verification that it's correct.
All that to say, from my perspective, they're losing some small amount of ground. The other side is that the big corps that run them don't want their golden gooses to be cooked. So they keep pushing them and shoving them into everything unnecessarily and we just have to eat it.
So I think it's a perception thing. The corps want us to think it's super useful so it continues to give them record profits. While the rest of us are slowly waking up to how useless they are if they will confidently tell us incorrect answers and are moving away from it.
So you may just be seeing sleezy marketing at work here.
- stoperaticless 2y agoHype is fading, so usage decreases. But you must admit that it is still useful, and usage will not drop to zero.
- a3n 2y ago> I was already using it in that context so I pushed back and it said "Oh yeah you're right, sorry" Same thing happened to me. I asked for all the Ukrainian noun cases, it listed and described six. I responded that there are seven. "Oh, right." It then named and described the seventh. That's no better than me taking an exam, so why should I rely on it, or use it at all?
- paulmd 2y agoIf you find it absolutely necessary to only work with coworkers who are incapable of making mistakes, I assume that you probably work alone?
- a3n 2y agoActually I do mostly work alone, I'm a truck driver. But that has nothing to do with my scepticism.
- Jensson 2y agoCoworkers learn, chatgpt doesn't.
- AnimalMuppet 2y agoIf you have a coworker who makes mistakes at the same rate that ChatGPT makes them, it might be perfectly reasonable for you not to want to work with that coworker. Humans aren't perfect. But "makes some mistakes" and "confidently spews errors at a high rate" are not the same. The difference matters.