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There are no error bars, no confidence intervals. Just a one trick pony that pastes tokens together to give you something that may look good to many people. Su
by zippyman55 1y ago
There are no error bars, no confidence intervals. Just a one trick pony that pastes tokens together to give you something that may look good to many people. Sure there are many good use cases, but there are still enough non-patchable and indeterminable in size holes in the watering pail to limit its effectiveness.
- brookst 1y agoAre you saying the Internet is a fad?
- scrollaway 1y agoJust like those newfangled computer thingamadjigies. Overhyped, no long term value.
- techpineapple 1y agoYes
- nancyminusone 1y agoIts value certainly has declined in recent years.
- zippyman55 1y agoConventional AI and statistics has many opportunities for bounding answers. Then, a less subject knowable person can do something with the result. But if a LLM returns: THE INTERNET IS A FAD, someone may run off and post the result on HN, which would be embarrrasing.
- freejazz 1y agoWhat even is the internet anymore? Do you mean the thing people use to access Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and "X"?
- simianwords 1y agoIs there any error bar or confidence intervals in stackoverflow answers?
- rurp 1y agoAbsolutely. Votes, comments, competing answers, posted/edited dates, and the context of being on stack overflow all provide useful signals about how reliable a bit of information is.
- zippyman55 1y agoStackoverflow is not being elevated to billion dollar valuations.