David HodgeWhat's #rstats thoughts on LLM's and neural networks (i.e. "AI")? Underhyped or overhyped?
ahistorical immaterialist@davidhodge931 overhyped, environmentally destructive, very limited use compared to the money and promotion being wasted on them
@jimbob Yeah, incredible amounts of cash and energy used in these.. But flexible useful tools?
@davidhodge931 honestly I feel the supervision and mental effort you have to put in, as a user, to make sure they haven't made a mistake, negates much of the advantage. In terms of using them for generating code, you can't just ask them to write code, you also have to carefully check, understand and test the code, and in that time I could have written it myself.
I *have* made them do useful things, but about once a month - I just can't get my head around people using them constantly, using them enough to make a paid subscription worth the cost.