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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (87 children)

No the fuck it's not

I'm a pretty big proponent of FOSS AI, but none of the models I've ever used are good enough to work without a human treating it like a tool to automate small tasks. In my workflow there is no difference between LLMs and fucking grep for me.

People who think AI codes well are shit at their job

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (4 children)

No the fuck it's not

Because it's a upscaled translation tech maybe?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

These views on LLMs are simplistic. As a wise man once said, "check yoself befo yo wreck yoself", I recommend more education thus

LLM structures arw over hyped, but they're also not that simple

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Yes you're right, it has some keyboard equivalent autocomplete as well.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

From what i know from recent articles about retracing LLM indepth, they are indeed best suited for language translation and perfectly explain the halucinations. And i think i've read somewhere that this was the originally intended purpose of the tech?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

many of the proponents of things in this field will propose/argue $x thing to be massively valuable for $x

thing is, that doesn't often work out

yes, there's some value in the tech for translation outcomes. to anyone even mildly online, "so are language teaching apps/sites using this?" is probably a very nearby question. and rightly so!

and then when you go digging into how that's going in practice, wow fuck damn doesn't that Glorious AI Future sheen just fall right off...

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