Comment by Seanambers
5 months ago
LLMs are fundamentally a new paradigm, it just isn't distributed yet.
It's not like the web suddenly was just there, it came slow at first, then everywhere at once, the money came even later.
5 months ago
LLMs are fundamentally a new paradigm, it just isn't distributed yet.
It's not like the web suddenly was just there, it came slow at first, then everywhere at once, the money came even later.
The LLMs are quite widely distributed already, they're just not that impactful. My wife is an accountant at a big 4 and they're all using them (everyone on Microsoft Office is probably using them, which is a lot of people). It's just not the earth shattering tech change CEOS make it to be , at least not yet. We need order of mangitude improvements in things like reliability, factuality and memory for the real economic efficiencies to come and its unclear to me when that's gonna happen.
Not necessarily, workflows just need to be adapted to work with it rather than it working in existing workflows. It's something that happens during each industrial revolution.
Originally electric generators merely replaced steam generators but had no additional productivity gains, this only changed when they changed the rest of the processes around it.
I don't get this. What workflow can have occasional catastrophic lapses of reasoning, non factuality, no memory and hallucinations etc? Even in things like customer support this is a no go imo. As long as these very major problems aren't improved (by a lot) the tools will remain very limited.
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