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In the near future, it is projected that contrarians will gain self awareness. (lemmy.world)
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I think AI is neat.

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[–] poke@sh.itjust.works 68 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Knowing that LLMs are just "parroting" is one of the first steps to implementing them in safe, effective ways where they can actually provide value.

[–] Kushia@lemmy.ml 9 points 7 months ago

LLMs definitely provide value its just debatable whether they're real AI or not. I believe they're going to be shoved in a round hole regardless.

[–] fidodo@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

I think a better way to view it is that it's a search engine that works on the word level of granularity. When library indexing systems were invented they allowed us to look up knowledge at the book level. Search engines allowed look ups at the document level. LLMs allow lookups at the word level, meaning all previously transcribed human knowledge can be synthesized into a response. That's huge, and where it becomes extra huge is that it can also pull on programming knowledge allowing it to meta program and perform complex tasks accurately. You can also hook them up with external APIs so they can do more tasks. What we have is basically a program that can write itself based on the entire corpus of human knowledge, and that will have a tremendous impact.