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New device could make processors run 1,000 times faster without additional waste heat — scientists say it could reduce data center energy demands (www.livescience.com)
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[–] 0 points 4 months ago* (15 children)

Name one single use case for LLMs that shows they are better or cheaper than humans.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    LLMs are just a tool, just like airplanes or hammers. An airplane is very expensive, but better at going really far distances than humans can on foot. A hammer is cheaper than a human, but by itself is useless unless operated properly. Despite the tone of the outputs, LLMs should not be authoritative and human judgement shouldn't be replaced with them.

    Just on the security side of coding, highly skilled security engineers at Mozilla were able to use Claude Mythos to identify and address many issues to make Firefox more secure. Some if these issues were introduced over 10 years ago, and a human could have identified and fixed them but human speed of reading and finding will always be a bottleneck. Having highly skilled humans offload the slow task to go through the codebase and raise issues, allowed them to find and understand the nuanced problem, and work on a fix. The key here is giving the people with the skills the ability be enhanced with LLMs, not replace them with one.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    In short, they're great at finding and flagging things for a human to review.

    The problem is when someone overestimates how well these models perform and they try to automate everything and put too much trust into these models.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    I mean thats easy. Did you miss the part where I said tool?

    Rapid prototyping of weekend projects.

    The starting point for troubleshooting said weekend projects.

    Do you know how much it would cost me to pay a human to fill that role?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    You realize how much you're robbing yourself when you do that, right?

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago

    I can't believe farmers use tractors and cultivators instead of just manually tilling the farm. Don't they know how much they're robbing themselves?

    I can't believe doctors use xrays to look at bones instead of cutting people open. Don't they know how much they're robbing themselves?

    Are you an idiot or are you so deeply entrenched in the whole "AI will always be useless" thing that you can't even see that its a tool that has a purpose which is to reduce toil which is EXACTLY what I've described using it for.

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  • [–] -4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Why tf do you need to protype and troubleshoot a “weekend project” or hire someone to do that? You protyping your hydrangea trimming or lawn mowing? You troubleshooting your vacuuming? Humans don’t, never have and never will need an AI to do “weekend projects” - doing the planning and thinking is literally what makes you a human, you’re giving up your humanity and reverting to an animal because you don’t want to sit down for a few hours and plan out a vegetable garden?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    I can't believe farmers are so lazy to use tractors and cultivators instead of just manually tilling the farm like a real human.

    I can't believe doctors use xrays to look at bones instead of cutting people open like real humans.

    I'm going to assume you have never done anything technically challenging in your life and explain this to you simply. When people do difficult technical things like programming or robotics projects, its best to be able to plan things out. And having a mockup or prototype of this is very useful. Hence why 3d modelling is so useful. So either you have no idea what you're talking about or you're just an idiot. Which is it?

    And to answer your question I have a black thumb. Can't grow shit. But I did build an automatic watering system for my partners peppers plants. But I suppose that mean she's given up what it means to be human too.

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  • [–] -1 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I once had an AI chatbot clean up a 3D model in under a minute with just a simple command

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  • [–] -1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    So you’re using it to prevent yourself from learning?

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  • [–] -2 points 4 months ago

    Fixing small computer or programming issues in a single prompt, instead of clicking through 6 different ad-infesteted, SEO optimized websites with 95% filler text and redundant phrases before giving a wrong answer.

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