Comment by sobiolite
17 days ago
That's fundamental to how _any_ technology works. If the bar for use is "can never go wrong ever", then you need to throw away every human invention ever made.
17 days ago
That's fundamental to how _any_ technology works. If the bar for use is "can never go wrong ever", then you need to throw away every human invention ever made.
The problem is the scope of errors is so wide. It's not reasonable to compare LLM style failures to other technology failures. These 'failures' are not actually failures, they're part of the normal operation of the system.
It's like a vending machine that 99% of the time it dispenses tasty snacks, but 1% of the time it gives you poison that appears to be normal, unexpired product. It just does this. They did their best to minimize how often it happens, but the poison chance is still there. It can't be removed. It's part of the system.
A "normal" vending machine has failure conditions, sure. They generally can't do worse than cause you to lose your money without giving you a product.
Outlook 2003 never presented a risk of draining my bank account to buy memecoins because a spam email was treated as instructions.