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Terr_today at 4:19 AM1 replyview on HN

We ought to be terrified, when one adjusts for ll the use-cases people are talking about using these algorithms in. (Even if they ultimately back off, it's a lot of frothy bubble opportunity cost.)

There a great many things people do which are not acceptable in our machines.

Ex: I would not be comfortable flying on any airplane where the autopilot "just zones-out sometimes", even though it's a dysfunction also seen in people.


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famouswafflestoday at 4:55 AM

>Ex: I would not be comfortable flying on any airplane where the autopilot "just zones-out sometimes", even though it's a dysfunction also seen in people.

You might if that was the best auto-pilot could be. Have you never used a bus or taken a taxi ?

The vast majority of things people are using LLMs for isn't stuff deterministic logic machines did great at, but stuff those same machines did poorly at or straight up stuff previously relegated to the domains of humans only.

If your competition also "just zones out sometimes" then it's not something you're going to focus on.

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