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At some point we have to stop reaching for these lazy "it's like a past change" quips. Not just regarding LLMs, but everything of the format "people who criticize the new thing are all luddites/fogies". X may in fact be like Y. But make the argument - don't just sarcastically imply it.
At this rate, people will just accept AI Overlords without any battle or revolution.
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A calculator can be trusted to give you the right answer if you punch in the numbers correctly. An LLM cannot. That's because a calculator is designed to give the right answer. An LLM is not. It's only designed to produce text that seems plausible based on the prompt. "Plausible" is not the same as "trustworthy".
Even children are figuring out that iterative prompt engineering is super effective. For maybe not the right reasons, but still.
The only real thing that would bug me is LLM’s are professional bullshitters. They are a super compressed store of knowledge that doesn’t know its own boundaries and will happily spout out perfectly written nonsense. At least encarta has effort put into making sure it is factually correct… it wasn’t compressed knowledge.
Granted it wasn’t when I was 11, but still. Not sure my point proves anything but it’s a point, damn it.
There's some grim humor in the fact that the poster reflects on his sister's use of chatgpt, and just ends on that point. I have to wonder if he decided to talk to her or his parents about the situation. I didn't see anything in the post to suggest it, just a "this next generation is cooked." Who cooked them is the question? Children won't raise themselves generally.
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A calculator can be trusted to give you the right answer if you punch in the numbers correctly. An LLM cannot. That's because a calculator is designed to give the right answer. An LLM is not. It's only designed to produce text that seems plausible based on the prompt. "Plausible" is not the same as "trustworthy".
The real difference is that calculation isn’t the important part of math above a certain level.
There's some grim humor in the fact that the poster reflects on his sister's use of chatgpt, and just ends on that point. I have to wonder if he decided to talk to her or his parents about the situation. I didn't see anything in the post to suggest it, just a "this next generation is cooked." Who cooked them is the question? Children won't raise themselves generally.