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Is using AI the equivalent of using a calculator to look up trigonometric function values, or outsourcing understanding what the functions are?
by abenga 2y ago
Is using AI the equivalent of using a calculator to look up trigonometric function values, or outsourcing understanding what the functions are?
- ben_w 2y agoRight now, more the former, but it depends. I'm an iOS dev. The better models exceed what I can learn about the operating system I develop for, in the same way that a trig function on a calculator exceeds the precision a human can memorise. (So do search engines, but they can't respond to natural language queries combined several topics at once). Because LLMs perform like juniors (sychophantic juniors with Alzheimer's), if you use them blindly without knowing the domain, that's still occasionally like picking random trig buttons because you don't know which of [sin, cos, tan] you wanted.