Why your boss isn't worried about AI – "can't you just turn it off?"

Re:Why your boss isn't worried about AI – "can't you just tu... by GuB-42 on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @08:16PM (#45600030)

This made me think about a conversation I had recently with a friend who is a researcher in Natural Language Processing. Obviously what we now call LLMs have taken her field by storm, which now mostly consists of trying to understand how the fuck they work.

I mean, we know they work, and they work unreasonably well, but no one knows how, no one even knows why they work!

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Re:Why your boss isn't worried about AI – "can't you just tu... by beyarkay on Thursday October 16, 2025 @03:08PM (#45609425)

Woah, I didn't realise NLP was still a field, but cool that they're working on interpretability now!

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Re:Why your boss isn't worried about AI – "can't you just tu... by GuB-42 on Thursday October 16, 2025 @06:18PM (#45611362)

It still is, but at least in her case, she is doing "AI" now. It is still NLP, but it is easier to get funding if you call it AI.

That's a weird situation, LLMs are language models, the very core of NLP, and yet the field tends to be overlooked. And by the way, she doesn't like the term "LLM": a language model that is large? what kind of model? what is "large"?

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