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by Terr_ 745 days ago
Yeah, I fear a lot of human exuberance (and thus investment) is riding on the questionable idea that a really good text-fragment-correlation specialist engine can usefully impersonate a generalist "thinking" AI without doing too much damage. ("LLM, which rocks are the best to eat?")

But there's a scarier further step: When people assume an exceptional text-specialist model can also meta-impersonate a generalist model impersonating a specific and different kind of specialist! ("LLM, create a legal defense.")