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by th0ma5 1y ago
The imperfections of people are less imperfect than the machines.
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by th0ma5 1y ago
A lot of the claims of usefulness evaporate when tested. The word useful has many meanings. Perhaps their only reliable use will be the rubber duck effect.
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by th0ma5 1y ago
I keep hearing anecdotes but the data, like a widely covered BBC study, say they only compress and shorten and routinely fail outside of testing on real world selection of only the most important content or topics.
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by th0ma5 1y ago
It was still very much like modern systems. If you didn't install, uninstall, or aggressively reconfigure things they were pretty stable, and controlled changes could be achieved. Some of the problem though was that the systems require
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by th0ma5 1y ago
So long as the control messages and the processed results are the same channel, they will be at an insecure standoff. This is the in-band vs. out-of-band signalling issues like old crossbar phone systems and the 2600hz tone.
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by th0ma5 1y ago
Huh? We've had pretty good translation in some languages in many general purpose contexts for a while. The LLM stuff if you're referring to that to my knowledge only has some gains in some languages in some contexts. Which is exci
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by th0ma5 1y ago
Another falsehood is that airplane data companies won't cave to legal or monetary threats. They might!
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by th0ma5 1y ago
The errors that LLMs make and the errors that people make are not probably not comparable enough in a lot of the discussions about LLM limitations at this point?
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by th0ma5 1y ago
Ther may be actually no way to ever know. A baked in bias could be well hidden at many levels. There is no auditing of any statements or products from any vendor. It may not be possible.
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by th0ma5 1y ago
I guess I respect that you're stating it honestly, but this is a statement of belief or faith. I think it is something that you should disclose perhaps more often because it doesn't stem from other first principles and is I guess
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by th0ma5 1y ago
Oh I mean for sure, but the point I was trying to make is that OP did those things, and I would argue the LLMs mostly just give him the permission to do it rather than actually producing something that he actually fully let the system do.
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by th0ma5 1y ago
Being a professional also involves reading about the technology like how there are studies saying that prompt engineering has hit a limit which is why people are talking about reasoning, agentic systems, this vendor vs that vendor vs offlin
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by th0ma5 1y ago
I guess I see the overton window in the other direction from this? If I had a coworker who made a random insult machine that emailed other employees random, but deeply personal insults, and some people thought it was funny, and the CEO said
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by th0ma5 1y ago
Very fair, I expect others to confuse what you mean productivity of your tool called LLM vs. the doubt that many have on the actually productivity of LLM the large language model concept.
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by th0ma5 1y ago
They are described as being useful for novel problems, but no matter the vendor or if it is an agentic system I set up, or I watch a reasoning model prattle on, I understand those things as filters that are limiting the conceptual search sp
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by th0ma5 1y ago
They are not. I think it is a good criticism though. Many people seem to be touting productivity that is only in the context of productivity towards more LLM inference operations and not productive in the sense of solving real world computi
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by th0ma5 1y ago
> The fact that we can use computers to mostly understand human language I agree that'd be amazing if they do that, but they most certainly do not. I think this is the core my disagreement here that you believe this and let this gui
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by th0ma5 1y ago
I guess I'll need clarification -- getting trapped in a non-productive quagmire is the experience of a lot of people. The author chooses when to use terms in different contexts to get out of arguments ... and also, we still don't
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by th0ma5 1y ago
I also added another reply to a false assertion by the OP here in this thread. Is that better ? It takes a long time to research all these falsehoods that are leading to the hype.
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by th0ma5 1y ago
"LLM was used to find" is not what they did > had I used o3 to find and fix the original vulnerability I would have, in theory [...] they ran a scenario that they thought could have lead to finding it, which is pretty much not
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by th0ma5 1y ago
I don't know the context that could be cordial when there is so much outright dishonesty about the state of LLM uptake. Can we have some guidance about how to call out bullshit? I know that the fake it to you make it or sell the shovel
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by th0ma5 1y ago
All the comments here in the positive for LLMs including all the posts by experts can be summed up as "these are the loto numbers that worked for me."
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by th0ma5 1y ago
CUPS was instrumental in me getting an old Commodore 64 printer working haha. It can do some amazing stuff.
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by th0ma5 1y ago
Yes it is very dissimilar. Life isn't a sum of the discrete inputs. I mean maybe it is at times but the context is several orders of magnitude greater, the inputs several orders of magnitude input, etc but the theory that it can be qua
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by th0ma5 1y ago
But the threshold between correct and incorrect inference is dependent on an intersection of the model and the document so far. That is not manageable by definition, I mean... It is a chaotic system.
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by th0ma5 1y ago
The Semantic Web has yet to fully fail. Most companies have implemented a closed world limited version of it internally. It has already been proposed as a solution to correct LLM outputs by many people.
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by th0ma5 1y ago
Can we stop with the "AI being unreliable like people" because it is demonstrably false at best and cult like thought termination at the worst.
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by th0ma5 1y ago
Prompt divining
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by th0ma5 1y ago
Every single thing that I am interested in my computer doing has not been done before by anyone that I know of nor do I think anyone besides myself would care. I keep reading all of this glazing like in the rest of the thread and it's
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by th0ma5 1y ago
Some opinions out there that people are using them as slot machines, are using them in place of project templates and aren't really working on things of substance, or they are in the business of producing artifacts that look like work

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