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> LLMs are not good in some domains and bad in others. Rather, they are incredibly good at some specific tasks and bad at other tasks. Even if both tasks are in
by a-dub 2y ago
> LLMs are not good in some domains and bad in others. Rather, they are incredibly good at some specific tasks and bad at other tasks. Even if both tasks are in the same domain, even if tasks A and B are very similar, even if any human that can do A will be able to do B.
i think this is true of ai/ml systems in general. we tend to anthropomorphise their capability curves to match the cumulative nature of human capabilities, where often times the capability curve of the machine is discontinuous and has surprising gaps.