• assembly@lemmy.world
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      Until the AI results can be trusted, I don’t see how this happens. I’ve been using AI for some questions that would normally be on stackoverflow but I don’t find code generation to save me time. Because I can’t implicitly trust the product, I still have to review the code before I can use it. If I have to review and understand it, it rarely saves me time. There have been edge cases where it helped me in some areas, like turning a CSV into a visual report in PDF format but I still had to review everything. It just happens that I suck as report tools so it was a shorter amount of time for me to review the AI report than to put together visualizations myself.

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        I’d offer a small correction: that ain’t happening as long as companies are liable for the AI’s work. If companies can just blame the model and get away with a fine that’s less than the savings, they absolutely will take that deal. Keep companies accountable and the bubble will burst

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    1. No it won’t.
    2. Anyone who frames LLMs as ‘intelligence’ is betraying they don’t understand what they’re talking about.
    3. Any work a LLM can perform effectively is work no human should be performing.
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      could you explain little bit more

      Any work a LLM can perform effectively is work no human should be performing.

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        LLMs are a tool with vanishingly narrow legitimate and justifiable use cases. If they can prove to be truly effective and defensible in an application, I’m OK with them being used in targeted ways much like any other specialised tool in a kit.

        That said, I’m yet to identify any use of LLMs today which clears my technical and ethical barriers to justify their use.

        My experience to date is the majority of ‘AI’ advocates are functionally slopvangelical LLM thumpers, and should be afforded respect and deference equivalent to anyone who adheres to a faith I don’t share.

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          What do you think about these;

          Translation
          Grammar
          Text editing
          Categorization
          Summarization
          OCR
          
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            LLMs can’t perform any of those functions, and the output from tools infected with them and claim to, can intrinsically only ever be imprecise, and should never be trusted.

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            Translation isn’t as easy as easy as just take the word and replace with another word from different language with same definition. I mean yes a technical document or something similar can be translated word for word. But, Jokes, songs and a lot more things differ from culture to culture. Sometimes author chooses a specific word in a certain language based on certain culture which can be interpreted in multiple ways to reveal hidden meaning for readers.

            And sometimes to convey the same emotion to a reader from different language and culture we need to change the text heavily.

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              I remember the Babelizer from the early internet, where you would input a piece of text, and the Babelizer would run it through five or six layers of translation, like from English to Chinese to Portuguese to Russian to Japanese and back to English again, and the results were always hilariously nonsense that only vaguely resembled the original text.

              One of the first things I did with a LLM was to replicate this process, and if I’m being honest, it does a much better job of processing that text through those multiple layers and coming out with something that’s still fairly reasonable at the far end. I certainly wouldn’t use it for important legal documents, geopolitical diplomacy, or translating works of poetry or literature, but it does have uses in cases where the stakes aren’t too high.

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    It’s always in the next 6 months, 12 months, and then time passes and the claim keeps getting remade.

    They just want investment hype.

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      fr I’ve been reading headlines like this for years now, and LLMs are still shit at doing anything other than produce things that superficially look good but rarely stand up to close inspection.

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        Expecting that one can improve an automated parrot to the point of getting intelligence is like expecting that one can improve the miming of a invisible barrier to the point that one gets an actual physical invisible barrier.

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      No, no, no!

      Keep trying, Microsoft!

      Just put a couple more hundreds of billions into it!

      Don’t trust the naysayers - you’re almost there!

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    They are right. If Microsoft keeps using AI to develop their products there will be no more jobs at Microsoft.

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    Another, “trust me, bro” article to keep that bubble pumped just another week

    How is this different from what they all claimed 3 years ago:

    He claimed that this AI model will be able to do almost everything a human professional does. adding that it will allow Microsoft to offer powerful AI tools to clients that can automate routine tasks for knowledge workers.

    The only “difference” I see is that now they are calling it “Professional Grade AI”… I guess they were just pumping out the “amateur grade AI” until now