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Josh Collinsworth

It occurs to me that LLMs ("AI," if you like) are used pretty much exclusively in areas where quality is difficult to define.

Art, service, design, communication, writing...arenas full of ambiguity, where it's hard to quantify success or failure.

It strikes me that LLMs are deployed mainly here, rather than in less equivocal places, at least in part because this masks the terminal flaw of LLMs:

They are designed for generation, not for accuracy.

They are not at all truthful or reliable.

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mattg

@collinsworth and the reliability cannot be fixed without breaking the generation. Writhing that realm LLMs are also deployed where "not very good" is considered "good enough." That is, "it's better than i can do and it's irrelevant that it's not as good as the human i can't afford to hire." Art and design are also faster to verify and avoid the worst mistakes.

Arthur Clune

@collinsworth is that true though? There’s a lot of us of LLMs as coding assistants

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