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by senko 1092 days ago
LLMs are the machine-translation services created specifically for that purpose[0], it just turned out they're very good at many other things!

Your analogy would be like saying why use a computer to multiply numbers if you can calculate them using calculator, which is much cheaper. Sure, but if you already have a computer, no need to use a dedicated calculator as wel.

[0] https://nlp.seas.harvard.edu/annotated-transformer/#results