[incanus77]

> For me the LLM topic is just all enveloping in a way the other trends haven't been.

Same here, for sure. I just try to dodge it all as best I can. Seems like every question has the possible answer of LLMs, and nearly always, someone provides it.

[somenameforme]

There's also this annoying dissonance between 'evangelists' and reality. Evangelists often feign that we're on the cusp of artificial general intelligence, while in practice LLMs remain stupid, error prone, and unreliable for anything beyond tasks that have a vast number sources for highly relevant training. Which also somewhat dilutes the utility, because I could just as well find those sources!

Oh right, that must just be because I'm not giving it the magic prompt that makes them magically turn into geniuses.

[astrange]

The current trend in LLMs is synthetic data and inference-time reasoning. They're past data sources.

The new problem is this only works when you can verify the answers.

[jcgrillo]

Sometimes I wish I had the drugs that would make me believe in things like "we're on the cusp of AGI", everything would be so much more exciting.