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He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn't give the same answer twice

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Re: He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn't give the same answer twice

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I am... unsure why anyone would think LLMs would be able to do this. They are not magic oracles. Like I think even most humans would be extremely bad at this. Like, are people actually using LLMs for this? Please do not, it won't work.

You are severely overestimating the average, or even above average understanding of LLMs.

Not to mention the fact that LLM marketing is trying to convince us that they can do anything

Re: He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn't give the same answer twice

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I am... unsure why anyone would think LLMs would be able to do this. They are not magic oracles. Like I think even most humans would be extremely bad at this. Like, are people actually using LLMs for this? Please do not, it won't work.

OpenAI etc, are, however advertising them like they are magical oracles, on the verge of lifting humanity to next phrase of civilisation. The idea the majority of users know what nondeterministic even means it's a massive, massive ask

Re: He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn't give the same answer twice

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I am... unsure why anyone would think LLMs would be able to do this. They are not magic oracles. Like I think even most humans would be extremely bad at this. Like, are people actually using LLMs for this? Please do not, it won't work.

It’s worse, I bet there are apps in the App Store that do this, the users just have no idea on the accuracy

Re: He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn't give the same answer twice

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I am... unsure why anyone would think LLMs would be able to do this. They are not magic oracles. Like I think even most humans would be extremely bad at this. Like, are people actually using LLMs for this? Please do not, it won't work.

>I am... unsure why anyone would think LLMs would be able to do this.

Well firstly the average IQ is 100. And also because people market products to consumers that claim to be able to count carbs from images. If you don't know the limitations of LLMs then there would be little reason to doubt it for an uniformed or below average intelligence person, of which there are hundreds of millions.

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