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Given that LLMs have no understanding of the text, what is the point of it?
by multjoy 9mo ago
Given that LLMs have no understanding of the text, what is the point of it?
- beerd 9mo agoI feel people talk to LLMs in chat format just so they feel there's someone listening. This puts thats in a journaling/blogging context, hopefully delivering the same value in a unique context.
- acron0 9mo agoWhat do you mean by "no understanding of the text"?
- pessimizer 9mo agoTo shuffle it up in semi-random ways that make you think. If you're determined to hate LLMs for any reason or any purpose, just think of them as an elaborate game of Exquisite Corpse or Ultimate Mad-Libs. You don't have to think LLMs are smart or real people to think of them as useful. I love it when I can make an idea clear enough in text that an LLM can completely regurgitate it and build upon it. I also love it when an LLM trips over and misses the one real novelty that I've slipped into something; what better for an originality test than trying to choke an automatic regurgitator? Transistors have no understanding of what I'm doing, but somehow I still find them useful.