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As an expert who uses LLMs daily on my field of expertise I’m not looking forward to dealing with works created by people who were taught by them. They are wro
by devjab 2y ago
As an expert who uses LLMs daily on my field of expertise I’m not looking forward to dealing with works created by people who were taught by them.
They are wrong far too often to be used for any sort of learning in my opinion. You can feed them a book and they’ll give you answers which don’t exist in any of the written material, and that’s the good part of them. Simply asking a LLM about things will give you answers that are hopelessly wrong and unless you’re an expert you won’t know it. Which isn’t necessarily worse than learning things from search engines or YouTube. I recently had ChatGPT give me a recipe for bread which was certainly better than the top 10 results on Google except for one things. The recipe listed 3x the amount of salt which you should ever reasonably use. I asked it a few other times, I even asked it for my friend Tommy’s recipe and all those answers were perfect. It obviously doesn’t know Tommy but it pretended to know and just gave me a pretty basic recipe.
Salt is a harmless error. Most people would know not to use that much salt, and even if they did, it wouldn’t harm them (much). But imagine if you had used it for something electric or chemistry.