Ruth Mottram

I have been a huge LLM sceptic, but after testing @MistralAI 's #LeChat this week (they get bonus points for sustainability, privacy and are EU based and regulated and not #UStech either), I'm starting to be seriously impressed - they have moved on a lot.
I can see why these tools are taking off for daily life.
@jburnmurdoch has an interesting piece on LLMs in general in the FT today too:

Social media is populist and polarising; AI may be the opposite - https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/b18870c7-de35-4325-9a9b-5c038ee3ceba

Social media is populist and polarising; AI may be the opposite

Large language models elevate expert consensus and moderate views, in sharp contrast to social platforms

Financial Times
Mar 28 at 10:18amWeb
Show threadEliza MB1d ago

@Ruth_Mottram @MistralAI @jburnmurdoch

I don't doubt that ML can be an extremely useful tool.
Autocomplete? Not so much.

Prof Hannah Fry did a three part series for the BBC a few weeks ago. I think it bears viewing if you get the chance.

Show threadArtem R 🇺🇦1d ago
@Ruth_Mottram @MistralAI @jburnmurdoch brace for impact!
Show threadSeth Mos21h ago

@Ruth_Mottram @MistralAI @jburnmurdoch recently been putting Gemini to work for a coding project and pleasantly surprised so far.

You will still need to apply best practices keeping development and production seperate. Use proper version control as it will at some point make a wrong decision based on statistics. But that's ok, I do that too. That's why we have these controls.

A humanoïde approach? Perhaps.