Comment by wiseowise

3 days ago

> They are statistical token (text) document generators. That's it.

I don’t know why people post this as some kind of slam dunk.

At the end of the day, it's true? There are times where that suffices, and times where it doesn't.

  • It might be true, but it is extremely reductive and used pejoratively.

    > That’s not a book, that’s just a soup of letters! That’s not an art, that’s just paint on a sheet! That’s not an instrument, that’s just a bunch of crap glued together!

    If you’re edgy cynic and treat anything this way, that’s fine. But if you’re singling out LLMs just because you don’t like them, then you’re a hypocrite.

    • If you think calling a calculator a calculator is offensive to the point of calling someone a cynic and hypocrite you might be a bit too invested