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I learned to program as a child in the 1960s (thanks Dad!) so I have some biases: Right now there seem to be two extremely valuable LLM use cases: 1. sidekick
by mark_l_watson 1y ago
I learned to program as a child in the 1960s (thanks Dad!) so I have some biases:
Right now there seem to be two extremely valuable LLM use cases:
1. sidekick/assistant for software developers
2. a tool to let people rapidly explore new knowledge and new ideas; unlike an encyclopedia, being able to ask questions, suggest references and get summaries, etc.
I suspect that the next $$$ valuable use case will be scientific research assistants.
EDIT: I would add that AI in k-12 education will be huge, freeing human teachers to spend more 1 on 1 time with kids while AIs will be patient teaching kids, providing extra time and material as needed.
- Workaccount2 1y agoThe most valuable LLM use case right now is allowing people who don't know how to program to get their computer to do what they want it to do. They might not be aware of this, they don't know how to use an IDE, but the hardest part - the code writing part, is solved. Every week Rachel in [small company] accounting is manually scanning the same column in the same structured excel documents for amounts that don't align with the master amount for that week. She then creates another excel document to properly structure these findings. Then she fills out a report to submit it. Rachel is a paragraph prompt away from not ever having to do that again, she just hasn't been given the right nudge yet.