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Purpose of technology is to enhance our performance, GPT is very much doing so - but with great powers comes great responsibility.
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Programmers don't think that, though, or least not all the time. You could say similar things about Stack Overflow, and yet we use it.
Stack Overflow responses are well known to be misranked. I’ve heard a rule of thumb that the actual correct answer is typically about #3.
LLMs are stunningly good at language tasks: almost all of what us old-timers called NLP is just crushed these days. Summarization, Q&A, sentiment, the list goes on and on. Truly remarkable stuff. And where there isn’t a bright line around “fact”, and where it doesn’t need to come together like a Pynchon novel, the generative stuff is smoking hot: short-form fiction, opinion pieces, product copy? Massive productivity…
I don't buy it. LLMs cannot do anything reliably, no matter how constrained the domain. Their outputs are of acceptable quality when back to a person who will use their human brain to paper over the cracks. People can recognize when the output is garbage, figure out minor ambiguities, and subconsciously correct minor factual or logical errors. But I would never feed LLM results directly into another computer program…
If you’re not convinced about sentiment analysis on e.g. LLaMA 2, I think you’re wrong, but maybe I’m wrong.
If you’re up for it, let’s run an expedient, I’ve got a GPU or two in my living room. This thread seems like a pretty great test set actually.
Maybe we both learn something richer than some benchmark stat?
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I don't buy it. LLMs cannot do anything reliably, no matter how constrained the domain. Their outputs are of acceptable quality when back to a person who will use their human brain to paper over the cracks. People can recognize when the output is garbage, figure out minor ambiguities, and subconsciously correct minor factual or logical errors. But I would never feed LLM results directly into another computer program…
So your other reply got flagged which I thought was a little harsh (I mean you were pushing it but who am I to talk). If you’re not convinced about sentiment analysis on e.g. LLaMA 2, I think you’re wrong, but maybe I’m wrong. If you’re up for it, let’s run an expedient, I’ve got a GPU or two in my living room. This thread seems like a pretty great test set actually. Maybe we both learn something richer than some ben…
I note that the comment is [dead] not [flagged] [dead], so maybe its state has to do with something else than the content of the comment? Just [dead] is, I think, shadowban.
I checked the poster's comments, but since it's a new account there's very few of them and I can't determine the reason for the [dead] from them.
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Man, write drunk, but edit sober.
Is the post that bad? What does it say about me if I didn’t think that it was that bad?
My theory is that honest takes should be written on first take without revisions and without edits. The moment I massage a statement to be more coherent I am compromising on my honesty.
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Ha it's fun to dunk on management consultants but I think the magic is they are like pop music producers. Somehow they're able to make the C suite hoover up LLM shovelware the same way top producers can take super obvious music and sell I V vi IV but when we try the same chords it's uninspired and no one wants to listen to it
It’s insane that people think producing pop music is easy. Competing on the pop music market is a cutthroat business with a lot of competition and the good ones get their price back in gold. When Scorpions wanted to be resurrected they hired Desmond Child to produce them and he absolutely crushed. These people are very good at what they do and there are very few of them.
The producers hired top shelf songwriters to write the songs, and several hit albums were produced. (It really is good music, despite being bubblegum.)
Cassidy, however, decided that he had songwriting talent and chafed. He eventually left the show, and with the megabucks he earned on the show, produced albums. They're terrible.
The same thing happened to the Monkees.
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Ha it's fun to dunk on management consultants but I think the magic is they are like pop music producers. Somehow they're able to make the C suite hoover up LLM shovelware the same way top producers can take super obvious music and sell I V vi IV but when we try the same chords it's uninspired and no one wants to listen to it
It’s insane that people think producing pop music is easy. Competing on the pop music market is a cutthroat business with a lot of competition and the good ones get their price back in gold. When Scorpions wanted to be resurrected they hired Desmond Child to produce them and he absolutely crushed. These people are very good at what they do and there are very few of them.
Then, the bands belatedly had to learn how to sing and play in order to go on tour.
I think about The Wrecking Crew whenever I hear the sob stories about bands being underpaid and the producers reaping the lion's share of the profits.