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Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying (www.thenerve.news)
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[–] 17 points 1 month ago (8 children)

LLMs seem to be pretty bad at home improvement sort of questions in my experience. I suspect they don’t have a team of carpenters they use to RL the models, like they do for software engineers, etc

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    Software is easier because you can basically 'inspect the house' and the 'home inspector' via software.

    Harder to do that with a house. Also a lot of different rules based on locality.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 month ago* (5 children)

    Reminder it doesn't know anything.

    It is just mimicking text it has been programmed for.

    For it to be "good" at mimicking home improvement, it's source needed to be full of home improvement talk. The best carpenters, plumbers, whatever aren't on reddit, or wherever talking shop. They're working, or making OSHA jokes at the bar.

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

    How do people work? Are there ones born knowing how to use a hacksaw?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    How did anyone ever learn anything before chatgpt?

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