Thank you, but I do not consider LLM equal to a calculator.
The latter doesn’t normally have any feedback, and has a constant solid system, where you may always expect the result won’t change in time all of a sudden, and predict it. There’s a circuit and read-only memory of its flashed program looped.
None of this is true in the context of the former - LLM. Here, an output may change each iterration due to the nature of LLM algorithms as “self-training”. The constant fear of the algorithm “plausible” mistakes, and it confidence in proving those are correct… is… unbearable…
We’re comparing both tools in different aspects. What you’re talking about is predictability (and accuracy); in these I agree a calculator is way better.
My point was about our reliance on tools, at the expense of deteriorating our own skills. Use calculators exclusively for long enough, and you’ll have a hard time with simple maths; rely too much on a kitchen scale, and you’ll lose the grasp on the right amounts of ingredients (or how to measure wheat flour without one); get used to an electric screwdriver and you’ll never know if you screwed it too little or too much. It may or may not matter, depending on someone’s profession, but I think some skills are worth kept alive and “un-rusty”, and I feel like the way I was using large models was rusting my skills.
Thank you, but I do not consider LLM equal to a calculator.
The latter doesn’t normally have any feedback, and has a constant solid system, where you may always expect the result won’t change in time all of a sudden, and predict it. There’s a circuit and read-only memory of its flashed program looped.
None of this is true in the context of the former - LLM. Here, an output may change each iterration due to the nature of LLM algorithms as “self-training”. The constant fear of the algorithm “plausible” mistakes, and it confidence in proving those are correct… is… unbearable…
We’re comparing both tools in different aspects. What you’re talking about is predictability (and accuracy); in these I agree a calculator is way better.
My point was about our reliance on tools, at the expense of deteriorating our own skills. Use calculators exclusively for long enough, and you’ll have a hard time with simple maths; rely too much on a kitchen scale, and you’ll lose the grasp on the right amounts of ingredients (or how to measure wheat flour without one); get used to an electric screwdriver and you’ll never know if you screwed it too little or too much. It may or may not matter, depending on someone’s profession, but I think some skills are worth kept alive and “un-rusty”, and I feel like the way I was using large models was rusting my skills.