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They are lying, because their salary depends on them lying about it. Why does it even matter what they're saying? Why don't we listen to scientists, researchers
by laterium 1y ago
They are lying, because their salary depends on them lying about it. Why does it even matter what they're saying? Why don't we listen to scientists, researchers, practicioners and the real users of the technology and stop repeating what the CEOs are saying?
The things they're saying are technically correct, the best kind of correct. The models beat human PhDs on certain benchmarks of knowledge and reasoning. They may write 70% of the easiest code in some specific scenario. It doesn't matter. They're useful tools that can make you slightly more productive. That's it.
When you see on tv that 9 out of 10 dentists recommend a toothpaste what do you do? Do you claim that brushing your teeth is a useless hype that's being pushed by big-tooth because they're exaggerating or misrepresenting what that means?
- grey-area 1y agoSo questioning the utility of LLMs for knowledge work is now akin to a conspiracy theory?
- laterium 1y agoNot what I said at all. Question it all what you want. But disproving outrageous CEO claims doesn't get you there. Whether LLMs are AGI/ASI that will replace everyone is seperate from whether they are useful today as tools. Attacking the first claim doesn't mean much for the second claim, which is the more interesting one.
- grey-area 1y agoI'm questioning the basic utility. They are text generation machines. This makes them unsuitable for any work that requires accuracy or understanding, which is the vast majority of knowledge work.
- culll_kuprey 1y ago> When you see on tv that 9 out of 10 dentists recommend a toothpaste what do you do? Do you claim that brushing your teeth is a useless hype that's being pushed by big-tooth because they're exaggerating or misrepresenting what that means? Only after schizophrenic dentists go around telling people that brushing their teeth is going to lead to a post-scarcity Star Trek world.
- laterium 1y agoIt's a new technology which lends itself well to outrageous claims and marketing, but the analogy stands. The CEOs don't get to define the narrative or stand as strawman targets for anti-AI folks to dunk on, sorry. Elon has been repeating "self driving next year" for a decade+ at this point, that doesn't make what Waymo did unimpressive. This level of cynicism is unwarranted is what I'm saying.
- IanCal 1y agoYou shouldn’t - that’s the point of the comparison. If some insane dentists started saying this you should not stop brushing your teeth!