this post was submitted on 23 May 2024
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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People need to realise what LLMs actually are. This is not AI, this is a user interface to a database. Instead of writing SQL queries and then parsing object output, you ask questions in your native language, they get converted into queries and then results from the database are converted back into human speech. That's it, there's no AI, there's no magic.
data based
/rimshot.mid
Try to use ChatGPT in your own application before you talk nonsense, ok?
do read up a little on how the large language models work before coming here to mansplain, would you kindly?
wrong answer.
yeah this isn't gonna work out, sorry
this is an unwise comment, especially here, especially to them
every now and then I'm left to wonder what all these drivebys think we do/know/practice (and, I suppose, whether they consider it at all?)
not enough to try find out (in lieu of other datapoints). but the thought occasionally haunts me.
I'm not sure they have theory of mind, TBH.
christ. where do you people get this confidence