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by puma_ambit 1237 days ago
The problem with a lot of academics is that they think everything has to be perfect. That’s just not how the real world works. People have seen that it can be useful and that’s all it is for now it’s up to humans to decide whether it provides value or not. And yes, it will generate bullshit from time to time but like anything it’ll get better. I remember when they used to say the Internet wasn’t very useful too, look how that turned out.
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Generally agreed, but there is a certain hyperventilating demographic that needs to understand the limitation of today's AI.
If anything I think the average person doesn't realize just how good these new tools are. They think of them as a slightly better Siri until actually giving them a go.
Did you read the article? It's a fairly balanced evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of LLMs in general, and ChatGPT in particular.