Comment by qsera

6 hours ago

LLM's are just a better search tool. Nothing more.

You say this as though it's a pithy point.

Might as well say humans are just a better search tool - it's true in the exact same sense you're using.

All humans do is absorb information, then search through our memories and apply that information in relevant contexts to affect the world

  • > pithy point.

    Not really, because I do think all knowledge can be obtained by searching true randomness.

You keep repeating it, but it’s obviously wrong in practice. I guess you can make an argument that sending WhatsApp message or generating video is just a search job but that’s not a great argument for why humans wouldn’t get replaced - it doesn’t matter if LLMs can be reduced to search tools, but if their output is good enough approximation of human worker output. If it is then it has a chance to replace human, even if you call it glorified search tool.

  • Yes, a better search tool will automate a lot of currently employed manual search jobs.