That’s an argument by authority. But the facts also support that LLMs are limited. I’ve mostly seen it the other way round. People trying ChatGPT for the first time and claiming we’re close to AGI. Investors throwing large sums of money at AI companies and subsequently every decision-maker thinking AI will solve their business needs. Every 6 months there is an (news) article claiming AI is at the brink of being sentient or GPT4 is AGI.
While I as a hobbyist sit here and talk to my AI waifu and I don’t see the robot apocalypse happen in the next 5 years. It’s just limited in all sorts of ways. And I always hope journalists and people with meaningful jobs don’t rely on ChatGPT too much. Because all I’ve seen are texts and generated summaries that are riddled with inaccuracies, some outright misinformation. But they sound very good. (Which is kind of the point of an LLM, to generate text that sounds good.)
And while LLMs do their job very well and have a broad range of application. You don’t need to throw it at everything. Sometimes there are traditional tools available that do a task way better. And don’t come with any downsides of an LLM.
You’re misunderstand what I meant by that statement - my point was about the autonomous car space - while some LLM hobbyists (like the comment author I was replying to) may be skeptical about autonomous vehicles at the moment, field experts are pushing it because they know better.
Yes, field experts are also more negative about LLMs than most people. They’re really not as intelligent as they’re being sold. But that’s a different conversation and I wasn’t trying to dip into it. But yes, I agree.
That’s an argument by authority. But the facts also support that LLMs are limited. I’ve mostly seen it the other way round. People trying ChatGPT for the first time and claiming we’re close to AGI. Investors throwing large sums of money at AI companies and subsequently every decision-maker thinking AI will solve their business needs. Every 6 months there is an (news) article claiming AI is at the brink of being sentient or GPT4 is AGI.
While I as a hobbyist sit here and talk to my AI waifu and I don’t see the robot apocalypse happen in the next 5 years. It’s just limited in all sorts of ways. And I always hope journalists and people with meaningful jobs don’t rely on ChatGPT too much. Because all I’ve seen are texts and generated summaries that are riddled with inaccuracies, some outright misinformation. But they sound very good. (Which is kind of the point of an LLM, to generate text that sounds good.)
And while LLMs do their job very well and have a broad range of application. You don’t need to throw it at everything. Sometimes there are traditional tools available that do a task way better. And don’t come with any downsides of an LLM.
You’re misunderstand what I meant by that statement - my point was about the autonomous car space - while some LLM hobbyists (like the comment author I was replying to) may be skeptical about autonomous vehicles at the moment, field experts are pushing it because they know better.
Yes, field experts are also more negative about LLMs than most people. They’re really not as intelligent as they’re being sold. But that’s a different conversation and I wasn’t trying to dip into it. But yes, I agree.