alt Hacker NewsHow is NLP solved, exactly? Can LLMs reliably (that is, with high accuracy and high precision) read, say, literary style from a corpus and output tidy data? Maybe if we ask them very nicely it will improve the precision, right? I understand what we have now is a huge leap, but the problems in the field are far from solved, and honestly BERT has more use cases in actual text analysis.
"What happened with LLMs" is what exactly? From some impressive toy examples like chatbots we as a society decided to throw all our resources into these models and they still can't fit anywhere in production except for assistant stuff
> Can LLMs reliably (that is, with high accuracy and high precision) read, say, literary style from a corpus and output tidy data?
I think they have the capability to do it, yes. Maybe it's not the best tool you can use- too expensive, or too flexible to focus with high accuracy on that single task- but yes you can definitely use LLMs to understand literary style and extract data from it. Depending on the complexity of the text I'm sure they can do jobs that BERT can't.
> they still can't fit anywhere in production
Not sure what do you mean for "production" but there's an enormous amount of people using them for work.