• ClusterBomb@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    17 days ago

    “My hammer is not well suited to cut vegetables” 🤷

    There is so much to say about AI, can we move on from “it can’t count letters and do math” ?

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      17 days ago

      But the problem is more “my do it all tool randomly fails at arbitrary tasks in an unpredictable fashion” making it hard to trust as a tool in any circumstances.

      • desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        17 days ago

        it would be like complaining that a water balloon isn’t useful because it isn’t accurate. LLMs are good at approximating language, numbers are too specific and have more objective answers.

      • superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        13 days ago

        Your not supposed to just trust it. Your supposed to test the solution it gives you. Yes that makes it not useful for some things. But still immensely useful for other applications and a lot of times it gives you a really great jumping off point to solving whatever your problem is.