[Kon5ole]

I see LLM's as next-generation search. So much of everything created on the internet is useless, outdated, false or just irrelevant to the thing you want answered. It gets increasingly harder to find what you need to get your job done. A LLM can extract relevant information from the garbage pile faster than I can sift through various forums and mail threads via Google. The more I use it the more I feel that it's a greater step in information-finding than Google itself was when it launched.

You need a second source of actual truth to verify it, of course, but that's always the case anyway. For coding it's easy, the code works or it doesn't. Lawyers and such have a harder time when they use a LLM trained on "the internet", but one can imagine a LLM trained mostly on actual case histories and law texts doing much better for example.

[rsynnott]

> For coding it's easy, the code works or it doesn't.

Oh, wow. That’s a quote that could be written on a lot of figurative gravestones. Also some literal ones; see THERAC-25.