Comment by jazzyjackson
6 days ago
You're in a bubble. Anyone who is responsible for making decisions and not just generating text for a living has more trouble seeing what is "insanely useful" about language models.
6 days ago
You're in a bubble. Anyone who is responsible for making decisions and not just generating text for a living has more trouble seeing what is "insanely useful" about language models.
I don’t think you’re right about that. LLMs are very good for exploring half-formed ideas, (what materials could I look at for x project?), generating small amounts of code when it’s not your main job, and writing boring crap like grant applications.
That last one isn’t useful to society, but it is for the individual.
I know plenty of people using LLMs using for stuff like this, in all sorts of walks of life.
Anthropic and OpenAI researchers themselves certainly use AI--do you think they generate text for a living.
What do they use it for?
edit (it's late, I'm just being a snark. I don't think researchers whose job is implicitly tied to hype is a good example of a worker increasing their productivity)