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Its not intelligence, is probabilistic prediction. Ie fancy autocomplete.
by gonzo41 2y ago
Its not intelligence, is probabilistic prediction. Ie fancy autocomplete.
- rockemsockem 2y agoHow you describe it is irrelevant, the results are what's relevant and LLMs have made it possible to significantly improve efficiency in a really broad range of tasks. And not just in BS tasks like blog spam copy, SEO sites, etc.
- jayski 2y agoI can't go back to coding without copilot. I agree it's a real efficiency booster.
- stackskipton 2y agoI can't go back to using it. I spent too much time reviewing the code it spit out and noticed when it absolutely wouldn't do what I needed it to, I was absolute slog since it was some else code.
- voidfunc 2y agoWho cares? Solve problem, write test case, move on. It's a huge efficency boon for those of us who realize our jobs are just mechanisms to make money. It sucks if you're into artisinal coding or whatever..
- namaria 2y agoYes it's all about that next paycheck. Churn out whatever drivel you need right? Btw have you noticed how the world is full of crap lately? I wonder why.
- lolinder 2y ago> into artisinal coding Is this the new phrase for "writing code that isn't going to blow up in my face in six months"?
- kranner 2y agoThere seem to be two different camps here: Copilot-users that use it largely for autocomplete and Cursor/Sonnet-users that use it for generating larger blocks of code. Personally I'm in the former camp; the efficiency gains are substantial and hallucinations are easy to control. Larger blocks are fine if one wants to sit down and review the whole thing, and also as a writer's-block-breaker. It's the folks generating whole codebases with no ability to review or debug that are in deep Monkey's Paw territory.
- GaggiX 2y agoLarger blocks are also perfect for scripts and tools for personal use, in this case you can just check if it works or not, Claude 3.5 Sonnet usually does not disappoint.
- rockemsockem 2y agoI tried copilot like 8 months ago for supercharged auto complete only, but I wasn't a fan because it was too high latency. I usually liked what it would write, but the second or so it took would really break my flow and had the overall effect of slowing me down. Makes me wonder if a local LLM could be superior here.
- kranner 2y agoIt seems to have gotten much faster recently so it might be worth another look. I also found it much slower while working on remote folders (with VS Code at least).
- rockemsockem 2y agoThat's good to know, the first time I tried it I was working on remote folders (just the way things are setup at work). Maybe I'll have to try it on my own computer and see.
- JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B 2y agoI try LLMs once a month with variations of the same question on a specific library that I use. It hallucinates all the time. I can't use those tools as long as they don't give me the answers I need.
- ggm 2y agoStill, the hype was to 10x and the incremental benefit is less, which means the capex won't return the hype value beyond the profit already made. Time to go back to predicting war and making huge profits on that game.
- rockemsockem 2y agoI'm really curious how much valuations, especially for big companies, have been based on things like "anyone can create a website with no technical knowledge", "programming will just be natural language in a few years", and "you are now the manager for an infinite number of junior developers". I think wall street is a bit smarter than that, but I'm not totally sure. I'm thinking that there are expectations of efficiency gains across a really broad range of tasks, i.e. programming, support, copy-editing, graphic design, etc, which will lead to significant increases in economic value. But it's impossible to know what the broad market is thinking, so IDK
- aurareturn 2y agoDoes the brain also do some sort of probabilistic prediction?
- ggm 2y agoIrrelevant because if the brain does it will be from a different model of reasoning and neuronal activity, which is not described or predicted by LLM.
- jsemrau 2y agoA fancy autocomplete is my Markov-chain-based Twitter bot I built in 2016.
- dboreham 2y agoSome day the penny will drop that this is what your brain is doing too.
- pizza 2y agoThere's a quote I read somewhere once that I have struggled since to find the original source: "if something is 100% correct, it can't be called intelligence" edit: hope the source is not this one and thus originally from Rumsfeld, lol https://x.com/colbertlateshow/status/691851573031505920 https://x.com/colbertlateshow/status/691851573031505920