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  • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org
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    14 hours ago

    It’s “Large Language Model”, and the point is in “Large” and that on really large datasets and well-selected attention dimensions set it’s good at extrapolating language describing real world, thus extrapolating how real world events will be described. So the task is more of an oracle.

    I agree that providing anything accurate is not the task. It’s the opposite of the task, actually, all the usefulness of LLMs is in areas where you don’t have a good enough model of the world, but need to make some assumptions.

    Except for “diagnose these symptoms”, with proper framework around it (only using it for flagging things, not for actually making decisions, things that have been discussed thousands of times) that’s a valid task for them.

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      11 hours ago

      Except for “diagnose these symptoms”, with proper framework around it (only using it for flagging things, not for actually making decisions, things that have been discussed thousands of times) that’s a valid task for them.

      This sounds like someone who knows nothing about construction saying “building a house” is a valid task because they don’t understand why using a hammer to drive in a screw would be incorrect or why it’s even a problem. “The results are good enough right?”