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The point you're missing is that people were making the same kind of comments about Amazon and Uber not too long ago
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I think that's an unfair comparison. If the IBM Simon disappeared in 1994, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't have cared. If search engines disappeared in 1992, you'd have felt the same. Also, (what later became) AWS probably didn't interface much with you in 2003. It takes some time for technology to mature, usually at least a decade or two. Even once the iPhone was released it took a few years until it became indispensab…
But the AI-public Internet timeline is more like 1995. if all web search disappeared in 1995 it would've been a massive loss, despite how primitive search engines were back then.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2868341-the-internet-yel...
ChatGPT and LLMs have had a significant impact on my wife's life. She's a second language speaker, and having ChatGPT available to draft and proofread professional sounding emails and text messages has drastically increased her self-confidence and ability to communicate with colleagues. I think that's amazing. That's also the only use of LLMs we've found.
ChatGPT and LLMs have had a significant impact on my wife's life. She's a second language speaker, and having ChatGPT available to draft and proofread professional sounding emails and text messages has drastically increased her self-confidence and ability to communicate with colleagues. I think that's amazing. That's also the only use of LLMs we've found.
1. Reformatting notes or bits of information into something more formal (something I consider actually counterproductive in a way, since formal is often more verbose, but that's expected in certain contexts...)
2. Sifting through the crap of the internet to answer obscure questions. The Google replacement that has been needed.
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LLMs are pretty good at the aspects of coding that I consider to be "the fun part". Using them has made me more productive, but also made my job less fun, because I can't justify spending time using my own brain to do "the fun part" on my employer's dime. And that was something I was particularly good at, which is why I was able to be paid well to do it. So now my company makes more money, and the work gets done fast…
Huh, for me it's the opposite. It does the boring bit, writing pedestrian method bodies. Writing import statements. Closing tags. I do the fun bit: having creative ideas and trying them out.
For an incremental improvement...not great, not terrible.
ChatGPT and LLMs have had a significant impact on my wife's life. She's a second language speaker, and having ChatGPT available to draft and proofread professional sounding emails and text messages has drastically increased her self-confidence and ability to communicate with colleagues. I think that's amazing. That's also the only use of LLMs we've found.
The downside to doing this is that you'll sound like an LLM. LLM-generated text is very obvious to anyone with basic reading comprehension and once detected will cause some people to summarily dismiss the sender as a bot.
ChatGPT and LLMs have had a significant impact on my wife's life. She's a second language speaker, and having ChatGPT available to draft and proofread professional sounding emails and text messages has drastically increased her self-confidence and ability to communicate with colleagues. I think that's amazing. That's also the only use of LLMs we've found.
I think this type of job suits LLMs perfectly... At the end of the day it's just a statistical NLP tool.
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Transformers can do weather prediction yes. https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.03876
This thread is about large language models and generative AI. AFAIK LLMs perform pretty badly at time series prediction. Maybe some specially trained weather prediction neural network could perform well, but that isn’t really what we’re talking about here.
ChatGPT and LLMs have had a significant impact on my wife's life. She's a second language speaker, and having ChatGPT available to draft and proofread professional sounding emails and text messages has drastically increased her self-confidence and ability to communicate with colleagues. I think that's amazing. That's also the only use of LLMs we've found.
I wouldn't trust the analysis on anything important, but that gives you the source links so you can still verify yourself.