Re:Talking About Large Language Models
by nathan_compton on Saturday December 10, 2022 @12:19PM
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I agree that I'd still rather use a search engine over a small set of sites than ChatGPT for exactly the reasons you suggest and others. But I don't see ChatGPT as having a lot of utility beyond functioning as a search interface for credulous dummies. I mean if I were literally developing a chatbot then clearly its a pretty interesting technology (assuming its problems can be tamed or censored somehow), but beyond that I don't really get it.
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Re:Talking About Large Language Models
by solidasparagus on Saturday December 10, 2022 @12:40PM
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The problem you are running into is that you are overindexing on the fact that LLMs will sometimes be wrong and you are used to using technology that is basically always right. But we are in the early stages of LLM adoption - correctness will improve (see for example citation driven LLM-search) but more importantly, the set of LLM-driven applications that can be probabilistically correct and still wildly useful will grow.
LLMs like ChatGPT are just so damn cheap for the power they provide, it's inevitable