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[โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Sounds like a genuine shortcoming of the technology as it's being presented to forced on the public

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    An LLM also can't bake a cake, decorate a Christmas tree, or bench-press 100kg.

    Just understand what LLMs are good at, use them for that, and don't throw your hands up and declare it useless because it can't magically do something it was never designed to do in the first place.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    but it's being sold as if it IS capable of that.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I've never seen anyone advertising an LLM as being good at spelling bees. The only time I ever see this spelling thing come up is when people are making fun of it.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    theyโ€™re presented as general knowledge chatbots at the very least, and i know iโ€™d consider spelling pretty general knowledge.

    the way i see it you can either acknowledge the โ€œstrawberry questionโ€ as a genuine failing of most every publicly accessible LLM, or you can acknowledge that LLMs are only ever actually correct by pure chance. sometimes itโ€™s a REALLY GOOD chance, but at the end of the day itโ€™s still always a variable that you canโ€™t actually control.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    You see a false dichotomy.

    I see someone pounding away at a ball of yarn with a hammer and complaining that it's not as good a knitting implement as they imagined.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago

    You have someone complaining about what people selling AI say it can do, when it can't do that. You see people complaining that AI can't do things, when it can do other things.

    You need to try and digest what people are saying better rather than just being contrarian.

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