Yeah, even setting aside the intelligence claims, I know I’d be feeling a lot more positive about LLMs as a fun theoretical tool if they weren’t being sold as personal assistants or search engine replacements etc, which even the apologists here admit they’re really really bad at.
(Also I’d argue “linguistic patterns” is pushing it. “Textual patterns” more like, it’s not supposed to have any idea about grammar or even about what “text” is.) (I say “supposed to” because who knows what sort of hacks they’re running under the hood.)
Yeah I completely agree with you there. I really don’t like the way AI is being monetized and commercialized; it all just seems poised to go terribly. Ideally there shouldn’t be any incentive to overstate the capabilities of these models, as doing so just makes everything worse.
Yeah, even setting aside the intelligence claims, I know I’d be feeling a lot more positive about LLMs as a fun theoretical tool if they weren’t being sold as personal assistants or search engine replacements etc, which even the apologists here admit they’re really really bad at.
(Also I’d argue “linguistic patterns” is pushing it. “Textual patterns” more like, it’s not supposed to have any idea about grammar or even about what “text” is.) (I say “supposed to” because who knows what sort of hacks they’re running under the hood.)
Yeah I completely agree with you there. I really don’t like the way AI is being monetized and commercialized; it all just seems poised to go terribly. Ideally there shouldn’t be any incentive to overstate the capabilities of these models, as doing so just makes everything worse.