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> you're not going to know anything because the LLM is doing it for you" which is easily obviously true Not obviously true to me. LLMs don’t know everything, s
by yunwal 2y ago
> you're not going to know anything because the LLM is doing it for you" which is easily obviously true
Not obviously true to me. LLMs don’t know everything, so they can’t solve all problems. You can try and give it the proper context but you still need to understand the context is necessary, which requires knowledge.
Kids who grow up today will understand and intuit that synthesizing 3 facts from an article doesn’t constitute “work” any more than multiplying 4-digit numbers. Adults will eventually pick up on this as well.
- marcus_holmes 2y agoyeah, one of the problems we're seeing with using LLMs at the moment is that they don't really work for beginners, because you need to have a certain level of knowledge in order to be able to spot the hallucinations and understand the context. I've seen this in coding, where as an experienced coder I can spot where the LLM is doing bad things, but if I try using it in a language or environment I'm not familiar with, I get lots of errors that I don't understand how to fix and all I can do is feed back the errors to the LLM and hope it does better next time. So I guess my point is that if we end up using LLMs for everything then we have a chicken & egg problem - LLMs don't work for beginners, but beginners don't learn anything while they're using LLMs because they can't get past basic errors. Your point about multiplying 4-digit numbers would be valid if calculators often made basic maths mistakes, and you can only really use them if you already know the approximate answer so you can detect when they've made a mistake.