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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

I think it's the outcome anyone really familiar with the tech expected, but that rarely translates to marketing departments and c-suite types.

I did an LLM project in school, and while that was a limited introduction, it was enough for me to doubt most of the claims coming from LLM orgs. An LLM is good at matching its corpus and that's about it. So it'll work well for things like summaries, routine text generation, and similar tasks (and it's surprisingly good at forming believable text), but it'll always disappoint with creative work.

I'm sure the tech can do quite a bit more than my class went through, but the limitations here are quite fundamental to the tech.