Comment by rosseitsa
8 hours ago
I'm so tired of articles in the format: "LLM does <important science thing>"
It makes it really hard to distinguish scientific progress from marketing. I wish the important part was the discovery and that it was an LLM that made it was only an afterthought.
Marketing or not, this is an interesting development. Two years ago (or even one) things like this were unthinkable to be done with LLMs.
But I agree, there are just too many headlines like this lately, and I am growing tired of them, too. On the other hand that's just what's going on right now: LLMs are advancing, and they are advancing fast. The first real AI use-cases started popping up around 2015 when hardware was potent enough to do more than just the generic "classify this hand-written number", and we are just above a decade later now, with LLMs being even more recent than that. Things like this will keep popping up and be even more prominent once someone comes up with whatever comes after "just LLMs".
> Two years ago (or even one) things like this were unthinkable to be done with LLMs
No, they indeed were thinkable. That's why there's been progress.
Excuse my wrong phrasing. I meant things like this were unthinkable to be done with LLMs at the time, not LLMs in general.