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What a nonsense article. I'm tempted to just reply "This is your brain on LLMs" but I'll try to be less snarky. Imagine having a toolbox, with different types
by xnorswap 2y ago
What a nonsense article. I'm tempted to just reply "This is your brain on LLMs" but I'll try to be less snarky.
Imagine having a toolbox, with different types of tools, and not knowing anything about them. Not knowing when it's appropriate to use one type of hammer over another.
That's the outcome of this, "Let LLMs take the wheel" attitude.
- ben_w 2y ago> Imagine having a toolbox, with different types of tools, and not knowing anything about them. Not knowing when it's appropriate to use one type of hammer over another. Is this pro-LLM, or anti-LLM? I agree with the truth of the statement, but it works both ways: the world is a huge toolbox, even just code is, even just iOS is. There's far more to learn than I can even enumerate, so much so that I can't even tell you what percentage are unknown to me, 90%, 99%, or more. LLMs are jacks of all trades and masters of none. I'm a matter of iOS coding, but I know less than jack about, say, metalwork (where I did one small project in secondary school). Sometimes "jack of all trades" is useful. But always check their working, because it's a miracle they can ever tell fact from fiction and were definitely trained on both. And when it comes to hammers, the machine probably does know more than me, as I can basically only functionally distinguish them by size and if they're rubber or steel, I can't say why some have wedges on the side that doesn't strike a nail while others have balls.