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This isn’t what’s being sold. The OP is also saying things like, “frontier AI models demonstrate intelligence at human levels or above.” If this is true, a use
by al_borland 3mo ago
This isn’t what’s being sold. The OP is also saying things like, “frontier AI models demonstrate intelligence at human levels or above.”
If this is true, a user shouldn’t need to curate their words to maintain the illusion of intelligence from the system.
If LLMs are just a tool, with limits, just like every tool, then what you say is easy to accept, learn, and adapt to. For the last several years we’ve been told to bring natural language to it, the tools adapts to the user, and many have called it intelligent. People are accepting the first answers from an LLM as established truth, regardless of how the question was framed.
I’m using it how the people selling it are saying to use it. And when I do that, it’s not very good. If they want to adjust their messaging and scale back the hyperbolic claims, then I can adjust how I use it, my expectations for it, and maybe have a more positive view. Until that happens, I’ll judge it based on the high bar they’ve set for themselves, where it routinely falls short.
- 1659447091 3mo ago> I’m using it how the people selling it are saying to use it. And when I do that, it’s not very good. [...] That is definitely one way to go about it. Going through life stubbornly insisting on using a thing only in the way it is marketed instead of in a way that optimizes its usefulness (or its cost/benefit) for you seems more burdensome than necessary. There is also a saying about the definition of insanity that may be relevant to the above Also, my suggestion was for your use-case: a pragmatic data retrieval, parsing, and presentation task. For creative fiction uses giving directives would likely return a similarly bad experience