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20kyesterday at 11:09 PM2 repliesview on HN

Except you have no idea if what the LLM is telling you is true

I do a lot of astrophysics. Universally LLMs are wrong about nearly every astrophysics questions I've asked them - even the basic ones, in every model I've ever tested. Its terrifying that people take these at face value

For research at a PhD level, they have absolutely no idea what's going on. They just make up plausible sounding rubbish


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cdetriotoday at 12:29 AM

Astrophysicist David Kipping had a podcast episode a month ago reporting that LLMs are working shockingly well for him, as well as for the faculty at the IAS.[1]

It's curious how different people come to very different conclusions about the usefulness of LLMs.

https://youtu.be/PctlBxRh0p4

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mgraczykyesterday at 11:27 PM

Somehow we went from writing software apps and reading API docs to research level astrophysics

Sure it's not there yet. Give it a few months

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