Comment by petetnt
7 months ago
The only job in the world where 90% success rate is acceptable is telemarketing and thah has been run by bots since the 90s.
7 months ago
The only job in the world where 90% success rate is acceptable is telemarketing and thah has been run by bots since the 90s.
LLM's will definitely find big uses in spam. However, it's not the _only_ use.
1) the code that LLMs give you in response to a prompt may not actually work anywhere close to 90% of the time, but when they get 90% of the work done, that is still a clear win (if a human debugs it).
2) in cases where the benefit from successes is as much as the potential downside from failures (e.g. something that suggests possible improvements to your writing), then 90% success rate is great
3) in cases where the end recipient understands that the end product is not reliable, for example product reviews, then something that scans and summarizes a bunch of reviews is fine; people know that reviews aren't gospel
But, advocates of LLMs want to use them for what they most want, not for what LLMs are best at, and therein lies the problem, one which has been the root cause of every "AI winter" in the past.