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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You can and should dismiss LLM's on principle though, because these are nothing. They're fancy Markov generators, maybe one step up from the auto-correct in your keyboard.

They're fun for researching problems and trying to further our efforts towards developing artificial intelligence, but the only thing techbros are selling is a new monkey to regurgitate the data it's been fed. The monkey doesn't know if the data is actually useful, or even if it is true, but to the techbros it "approximates a conversation" and therefore is good enough to replace jobs. AI might be cool eventually, but we are still lightyears away from anything that can think.