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by qeternity 856 days ago
It’s important…if you’re building a chatbot.

The most interesting applications of LLMs are not chatbots.

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> The most interesting applications of LLMs are not chatbots.

What are they then? Every use case I’ve seen is either a chatbot or like a copy editor which is just a long form chatbot.

Obviously not op, but these days LLMs can be fuzzy functions with reliably structured output, and are multi-modal.

Think about the implications of that. I bet you can come up with some pretty cool use cases that don't involve you talking to something over chat.

One example:

I think we'll be seeing a lot of "general detectors" soon. Without training or predefined categories, get pinged when (whatever you specify) happens. Whether it's a security camera, web search, event data, etc

Complex data tagging/enrichment tasks.
> The most interesting applications of LLMs are not chatbots.

In your opinion, what are the most interesting?