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> telling if he’s grifting or legitimately insane or if he's talking to us from 5 years in the future. Ignoring the financial aspect, this all makes sense - o
by marcus_holmes 9mo ago
> telling if he’s grifting or legitimately insane
or if he's talking to us from 5 years in the future.
Ignoring the financial aspect, this all makes sense - one LLM is good, 100 is better, 1000 is better still. The whole analogy with the industrial revolution makes sense to me.
> AI firms are currently burning money as fast as possible selling a dollar for 10 cents.
The financial aspect is interesting, but we're dealing with today's numbers, and those numbers have been changing fast over the last few years. I'm a big fan of Ed Zitron's writing, and he makes some really good points, but I think condemning all creative uses of LLMs because of the finances is counterproductive. Working out how to use this technology well, despite the finances not making much sense, is still useful.
- xyzsparetimexyz 9mo agoBetter in what sense? What are we actually building with 1000 LLMs
- igor47 9mo agoA system to build more systems with more LLMs, of course!
- throwup238 9mo ago> Ignoring the financial aspect, this all makes sense - one LLM is good, 100 is better, 1000 is better still. The whole analogy with the industrial revolution makes sense to me. How does this make sense? LLMs are doing knowledge work so they face the same coordination problem that humans do, they're not assembly line workers. We have no reason to believe that the lessons of the mythical man month don't apply to LLMs too since the coordination costs, especially when they're touching the same piece of code, are very high.