LLMs are the ultimate demoware
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LLMs are the ultimate demoware
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Re: LLMs are the ultimate demoware
#2Yes, AI allows for exquisite demos, demos that tantalize the audience into thinking of the infinite potential of the technology, that stunning vision expands and expands until the universe of potential overwhelms the dreamer into a state of terminal fantasy. So it is always a solution looking for a problem. There are cases where the two meet more realistically and a valuable impactful company develops it.
The fact it can generate human language that is very compelling for certain context, makes it seem possible of doing so for many, many more contexts.
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#3"then fails to consistently help in completing tasks when deployed for daily use."
This article seems to be baitware trying to push some outdated perspective. LLMs have only gotten more powerful over the last 3 years (being able to do more things), and so far not much has stopped them from becoming even more powerful (with the help of reasoning, other external methods, etc) in the future.
"daily use" is so subjective and this article will be out dated soon as we get closer to an AGI (with LLMs as the base layer and not the main driver)
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#4Again and again people keep saying this while many of us keep using LLMs to create value.
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#5"then fails to consistently help in completing tasks when deployed for daily use." This article seems to be baitware trying to push some outdated perspective. LLMs have only gotten more powerful over the last 3 years (being able to do more things), and so far not much has stopped them from becoming even more powerful (with the help of reasoning, other external methods, etc) in the future. "daily use" is so subjective…
What evidence is there that AGI will come “soon”?
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#6NNs are also demoware in the sense they contain extremely condensed and incomprehensible model of the world (or part of). Demo coders would be proud.
Edit: I mean their outputs are procedurally generated, like in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene
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#7It's wild to me that, of all the things to call LLMs out for, this piece has chosen to include math tutoring. I've been doing Math Academy for a bit over 6 months now, going from (essentially) Algebra II through Calc II (integration by parts, arc lengths, Taylor expansions) and LLMs have been a huge part of what has made that effective:
* Clear explanation of concepts that respond to questions and reformulate when things bounce
* Step-by-step verification of solutions, spotting exactly where calculations have gone
* Instantaneously generating new problem sets to reinforce concepts
LLMs are probably not going to live up to all sorts of claims their proponents make. But I don't think you can ever have tried to use an LLM in a math course and reach the conclusion that it's "demoware" for that application. At what point, over 6 months of continuous work, does it stop being a "demo"?
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#8This is such a weak take to read while I have Claude Code running in the background creating a new database migration for a feature we're building
Re: LLMs are the ultimate demoware
#9Yes, AI allows for exquisite demos, demos that tantalize the audience into thinking of the infinite potential of the technology, that stunning vision expands and expands until the universe of potential overwhelms the dreamer into a state of terminal fantasy. So it is always a solution looking for a problem. There are cases where the two meet more realistically and a valuable impactful company develops it. The fact it…
LLM models have evolved to autonomously convince humans that they're useful. They're the ultimate memetic parasites.
Re: LLMs are the ultimate demoware
#10It's wild to me that, of all the things to call LLMs out for, this piece has chosen to include math tutoring. I've been doing Math Academy for a bit over 6 months now, going from (essentially) Algebra II through Calc II (integration by parts, arc lengths, Taylor expansions) and LLMs have been a huge part of what has made that effective: * Clear explanation of concepts that respond to questions and reformulate when th…
It seems very hard to maintain the belief that LLMs are useless in the face of the fact that millions of people are using them. It's very much "nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded"