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by hombre_fatal 324 days ago
> The counter point is how LLMs can't find a missing line in a poem when they are given the original.

True, but describing a limitation of the tech can't be used to make the sort of large dismissals we see people make wrt LLMs.

The human brain has all sorts of limitations like horrible memory (super confident about wrong details) and catastrophic susceptibility to logical fallacies.

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> super confident about wrong details

Have you not had this issue with LLMs? Because I have. Even with the latest models.

I think someone upthread was making an attempt at

> describing a limitation of the tech

but you keep swatting them down. I didn’t see their comments as a wholesale dismissal of AI. They just said they aren’t great at sufficiently complex tasks. That’s my experience as well. You’re just disagreeing on what “sufficiently” and “complex” mean, exactly.