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Do you know how exactly your comment reads compared to “the internet is a fad” of the late 90s? I can select a PDF and ask for facts from it and page numbers w
by SV_BubbleTime 2y ago
Do you know how exactly your comment reads compared to “the internet is a fad” of the late 90s?
I can select a PDF and ask for facts from it and page numbers where the information is. If you think that isn’t amazing I don’t know what your scale is.
IDK what you’ve been doing with LLM models but it is a major shift even if you can’t see it.
- atq2119 2y agoThe 90s internet comparison feels pretty apt to me. In both cases, it's a signal that a correction, maybe even a crash, is going to come due to massive over- and misinvestment. But like the 90s internet, it's likely going to be extremely transformative in the longer term. Some people focus on the short term part of this, others on the long term. Integrating both into a coherent perspective isn't that easy. It's going to be interesting for a while!
- grishka 2y agoPlease give me some examples of real new capabilities that LLMs gave people. Something that they weren't able to do before, or something that was wildly impractical before LLMs appeared.
- consteval 2y ago> I can select a PDF and ask for facts from it and page numbers where the information is You can already do this, press ctrl-f and search. Boom, done. LLMs don't solve new problems much - rather they give you a new INTERFACE into a solution. Natural language. Before you'd use commands, specific software, processes, formats, configuration. Now you can use natural language (maybe sometimes). To me, this isn't a break through.