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by nyrikki 529 days ago
So visual programming x.0?

I am pretty sure PLCs with ladder logic are about the limits of the traditional visual/macro model?

Word-sense disambiguation is going to be problematic with the 'don't need to learn' part above.

Consider this sentence:

'I never said she stole my money'

Now read that sentence multiple times, puting emphasis on each word, one at a time and notice how the symantic meaning changes.

LLMs are great at NLP, but we still don't have solutions to those NLU problems that I am aware of.

I think to keep maximum generality without severely restricted use cases that a common DSL would need to be developed.

There will have to be tradeoffs made, specific to particular use cases, even if it is better than Alexa.

But I am thinking about Rice's theorm and what happens when you lose PEM.

Maybe I just am too embedded in an area where these problems are a large part of the difficulty for macro style logic to provide much use.