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nomdeptoday at 4:47 PM2 repliesview on HN

"As LLMs etc. are deployed in new situations, and at new scale, there will be all kinds of changes in work, politics, art, sex, communication, and economics."

For an article five years in the making, this is what I expected it to be about. Instead, we got a ramble about how imperfect LLMs are right now.


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nathelltoday at 5:07 PM

The post is just a prelude to a 10-part article, most of which is not yet released (but will be shortly). Judging by the table of contents, the things you expected will be elaborated on in subsequent parts.

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52-6F-62today at 5:01 PM

> Instead, we got a ramble about how imperfect LLMs are right now.

I wager this is a point that needs beaten into the common psyche. After all, it's been sold that it is not an imperfect tool, but the solution to all of our problems in every field forever. That's why these companies need billions upon billions of dollars of public subsidies and investments that would otherwise find their way to more pragmatic ends.