alt Hacker News> There's an incredibly serious lack of education with how LLMs & carb-counting works
Oh! Do the vendors offer trainings to make sure the users understand how LLMs work? If not, surely, the LLM itself is trained to know its limitations and politely decline in situations like that?...
The #1 use case for this tech is "here's a problem I don't feel like solving, let's have a computer do magic". It's how it's advertised on TV, it's how it promoted in the software I already use. Food preparation? Travel planning? Shopping? Tutoring your children? You can do anything now!
I just talked to a realtor who will make a killing on a real estate transaction. Instead of offering human insights, they sent me "AI reviews" of several properties. The AI has never been to any of these properties and has no idea how they actually look like. But I guess it's how we operate now as a society.
If you go to eBay, every other listing description for used items is AI-generated. This is an official platform feature for sellers. The AI doesn't know the condition of the item or what's included or missing. Doesn't matter, it's magic. It's AGI, it will figure it out.
Most of the uses of AI I encounter as a consumer are like that, and the companies selling this tech are 100% complicit.
yes - the vast majority of labs offer a whole host of training material for users to understand how LLMs work. There's entire course websites created by each of the major vendors specifically to understand how LLMs work. Here's a couple of examples:
https://academy.openai.com/public/content
https://www.commonsense.org/education/articles/practical-tip...
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>Getting the most out of generative AI depends on what you put in. To quote our Outreach team, "It's a tool, not magic!" As the technology evolves, more and more chatbots are designed for specific purposes.
https://www.anthropic.com/learn https://anthropic.skilljar.com/ai-fluency-framework-foundati...
https://grow.google/ai
All of the above are completely free, you could start 3 coursers today that specifically teach you how AI tools work in practice. yes, this is different from the marketing that some of these tools use, but these resources are there, free and available.
Maybe we need to create a form of driving license for responsible AI use, but saying the resources don't exist is not accurate