Marsh Ray
IrisUnfortunately, I fear that it's easy to see why LLMs became popular: getting anywhere in our currently arranged society requires us all to generate unreasonably large quantities of what is, frankly, total crap.
Glyph
The Orange Theme@iris_meredith I'm still very firmly anti-LLM, but I am sympathetic to the people who use them because they've either been given an impossible workload, or they've been asked to do tedious, mind-numbing, unnecessary busywork. Like cover letters. "In three to five paragraphs, cosplay loving this company without admitting you need money to eat" is such a ridiculous concept. No wonder people try to automate stuff like that.
@iris_meredith @glyph It’s an extremely unpopular idea among the folks I follow, but 85% is officially “good enough” (i.e., a passing grade) for most areas of human endeavor.
So if a few fancy matrix multiplications can do that in two seconds, and do it 24/7 without expecting even basic employment rights, then business will be willing to put up with nearly anything to take advantage of that.
David Nash@iris_meredith @marshray @glyph Trained in such a field originally (chemistry) where getting things even slightly wrong can be *extraordinarily* dangerous, and have always had a hobby (amateur astronomy) where correctly answering a question like “is this star/galaxy visible tonight from such-and-such place and time” is bare-minimum table stakes. 85% correct is, often, effectively 0% correct in both scenarios.
@dpnash @iris_meredith @glyph Yes, I am too.
My point is we are not representative.
@iris_meredith @dpnash @glyph Well no one can, 100% of the time.
Those of us who trained and practiced for many years to attempt to consistently think rigorously are basically a lunatic fringe. It’s not normal human behavior.