logoalt Hacker News

z3c0today at 3:39 PM1 replyview on HN

Ha! To think that we're finally back to asking ourselves why we are using generative models for categorization and extraction. I wonder how much money has collectively been wasted by companies wittling away at square pegs.


Replies

otabdeveloper4today at 6:01 PM

> why we are using generative models for categorization and extraction

Because LLM models have already amortized the man-years cost of collecting, curating and training on text corpuses?

show 1 reply