Veraticus@lib.lgbt to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agoToday's Large Language Models are Essentially BS Machinesquandyfactory.comexternal-linkmessage-square134fedilinkarrow-up1151arrow-down11cross-posted to: hackernews@derp.foo
arrow-up1150arrow-down1external-linkToday's Large Language Models are Essentially BS Machinesquandyfactory.comVeraticus@lib.lgbt to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square134fedilinkcross-posted to: hackernews@derp.foo
minus-squareupstream@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoAs with any tool it is how you use it that matters. Today’s LLM’s are capable of fairly amazing stuff. It’s a BS machine? Sure. Have you read or written stuff for higher education? You don’t get points for being short and concise, even though you should. You get points for following the BS formula. You know who else is good at BS? LLM’s. If you manage to provide it enough meaningful input it can do a great lot of BS legwork for you. I see people who overuse it, don’t edit, isn’t critical. Sure. Then you end up with just BS. But there’s plenty of useful applications, like writing boiler plate code (see also CoPilot), structuring code, tests, etc. Is it worth all the hype? Nope. Some of it? Probably.
minus-squareVeraticus@lib.lgbtOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoYeah definitely not saying it’s not useful :) But it also doesn’t do what people widely believe it does, so I think articles like this are helpful.
As with any tool it is how you use it that matters.
Today’s LLM’s are capable of fairly amazing stuff.
It’s a BS machine? Sure. Have you read or written stuff for higher education?
You don’t get points for being short and concise, even though you should. You get points for following the BS formula.
You know who else is good at BS?
LLM’s. If you manage to provide it enough meaningful input it can do a great lot of BS legwork for you.
I see people who overuse it, don’t edit, isn’t critical. Sure. Then you end up with just BS.
But there’s plenty of useful applications, like writing boiler plate code (see also CoPilot), structuring code, tests, etc.
Is it worth all the hype? Nope.
Some of it? Probably.
Yeah definitely not saying it’s not useful :) But it also doesn’t do what people widely believe it does, so I think articles like this are helpful.