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World-renowned AI scientist Geoffrey Hinton says it might turn out humans would have been better off without AI (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 8 points 3 days ago (11 children)

What is even the benefit

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (10 children)

    Well, for starters, if you want to translate a written work to another language, it has never been easier.

    LLMs are excellent tools for modeling large languages.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 days ago* (9 children)

    That is all they are good for. They are ok for translation, although even then they miss a lot of nuance like someone who can speak a language but isn't fluent.

    Well, there are a lot of malicious uses, but passable translation is the one positive use case.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    That is all they are good for.

    Wife is a lawyer. She needs to do complex keyword searches on massive volumes of legal documentation. She absolutely loves how quickly and easily Copilot parses and tabulates info based on her queries.

    Total game changer for the kind of work she's doing.

    I work in IT. Love to cobble together scripts in languages I'm otherwise unfamiliar using Claude. It's also excellent at diagnosing system errors and providing effective remediation.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    There are better AI options that could be developed for that over a massive all in one inefficient LLM like Copilot. If the same amount of money was thrown at dedicated development AI and searches it would require far less energy, pollution, hardware, and could be run locally in many cases with the same or better results.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Also, not all AI is LLMs

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago

    I was replying to a post about LLMs and the article is about LLMs so while it is true that AI predates LLMs and the label isn't literally limited to only LLMs and genAI those two things have taken over the label and are what nearly everyone means when they say AI.

    They aren't talking about the AI used to find exoplanets, or the AI used with lidar to find structures in jungles, or to do actual medical science, or all of the other types that are useful tools. The article is about LLMs implemented by the big companies that are designed to steal and manipulate data in ways that are detrimental to society.

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