Comment by Libidinalecon
3 days ago
I just had 5.1 do something incredibly brain dead in "extended thinking" mode because I know what I asked it is not in the training data. So it just fudged and made things up because thinking is exactly what it can not do.
It seems like LLMs are at the same time a giant leap in natural language processing, useful in some situations and the biggest scam of all time.
> a giant leap in natural language processing, useful in some situations and the biggest scam of all time.
I agree with this assessment (reminds of bitcoin frankly), possibly adding that the insights this tech gave us into language (in general) via the embedding hi-dim space is a somewhat profound advance in our knowledge, besides the new superpowers in NLP (which are nothing to sniff at).