Comment by peder

6 months ago

Most of the comments here feel like cope about AI TBH. There's never been an innovation like this ever, and it makes sense to get on board rather than be left behind.

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Gormo  6 months ago

> There's never been an innovation like this ever

There have been plenty of innovations like this. In fact, much of the hype around LLMs is a rehash of the hype around "expert systems" back in the '80s. LLMs are marginally more effective than those systems, but only marginally.

  • peder  6 months ago

    Utter nonsense. The scale of disruption with LLMs is almost unfathomable. Every small business in the country has basically abandoned the big platforms and expensive enterprises for IT support, marketing and digital content creation, HR, legal...

    Patients are having detailed conversations about their health with LLMs. Office visits for routine questions are plummeting.

    Software is written almost entirely by LLMs, producing a greater volume of code in a fraction of the time.

    Rapidly, we are approaching a point where there is no need for junior employees in most organizations. It's not industry-specific, it's universal. This will reshape corporate Big Four accounting, software engineering, and medicine because revenue will shift so dramatically.

    This is not just some marginally more effective use of computing resources.

    • Gormo  6 months ago

      Do you have even a shred of evidence to suggest that anything you're describing has actually taking place at scale?

      "Software is written almost entirely by LLMs" is obviously false. "Every small business in the country has basically abandoned the big platforms and expensive enterprises for IT support" is obviously false. And how would you even know what medical conversations people are having with either their doctors or LLMs?

      Everything you're saying sounds like unsubstantiated wishful thinking from someone who's taken a big gulp of the LLM Kool-Aid.