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by Libidinalecon 197 days ago
It works because we are in a health care crisis and the nurse doesn't have anything close to enough time to do a good job.

It is really one of the few great examples that LLMs are good for in an economic sense.

In a different industry, such inefficiency would have been put out of business.

It is a unique economic condition that makes LLMs valuable. It makes complete sense.

To the wider economy though, it is hard to ignore the unreasonable uselessness of LLMs. The unreasonable uselessness points to some kind of fundamental problems with the models that are unlikely to be solved by scaling.

We need HAL to solve our problems but instead we have probabilistic language models that somehow have to grow into HAL.