The Generative AI Con

Re:The Generative AI Con by idonotknowwhy on Monday February 17, 2025 @11:57PM (#43086204)

Yeah I'm surprised by all the negativity as well. I'm listening to the post right now (using xtts-v2 finetuned on a voice I like lol). Sounds like these companies are overvalued / over hyped. Maybe they are / some of these companies go the way of myspace, but LLMs are incredibly useful for me.

I'm able to do a so much more using LLMs (Mistral-Large, Qwen2.5 and R1 locally, Claude via API) than without them.

I have to get the IDE setup properly now.

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Re:The Generative AI Con by spaceman_2020 on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @03:10AM (#43087203)

Personally, I've found DeepSeek R1 to be a profoundly good model for thinking through problems across fields.

I had a complex finance situation that I was struggling with, both from a mathematical/taxation perspective and a personal psychological finance hangup. I spent a few good hours talking to it through everything and had a mental breakthrough. To get the same kind of insight, I would have to pay a financial advisor AND a psychologist for several hours.

That all of this was free while someone calls it a "con" seems completely wrong

(I got my CFA cousin to look over the numbers and he agreed with R1's advice, fwiw)

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Re:The Generative AI Con by idonotknowwhy on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @03:46AM (#43087469)

Yeah, I've had similar experiences. I still hesitate if it's a field I don't know too well of course (never trust an LLM), but R1 has been able to solve things I've been stuck on. And watching it's <think></think> process has been insightful. Only issue is that it ties up all my GPUs while I run it.

Hopefully Mistral can copy their technique and give us a 123b reasoning model.

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Re:The Generative AI Con by cess11 on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @06:17AM (#43088297)

Did you run this locally?

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