If you can't know if it's right or wrong, and have to double check it, why use it in the first place?

"If you can't trust that a friend solved a sudoku puzzle for you without checking it first, why even bother?"

The obvious answer being that it's much easier to check the solution to a sudoku puzzle than it is to solve it yourself. If you have reasonable means to check compared to going out and starting from scratch, then even a modest enough rate of correct answers can save a ton of time. LLMs don't have that for me, but that's also because I've been doing research as a hobby for 10 years.

If you know anything about computation theory, there's an entire class of problems for which checking a solution is (relatively) trivial but finding a correct one is highly non-trivial.

It's easier to copywriteedit an email that to write it from scratch.

Edit: I meant copyedit, not copywrite

If you can’t know if it’s right or wrong, and have to double check it, why use it in the first place?

Me and my partner alternate doing the cooking. She doesn't know if I'm going to make a mistake and serve her something she doesn't like (it has happened). Does that mean she's better off doing all the cooking herself?

"If it's not perfect, it's useless" is a fallacy. So the question is, how good does it have to be to be useful? That depends on the task, and especially on the cost (however you measure it - dollars or hours or whatever) of verifying whether the result is good compare to the cost of a person doing the task.

The petaflops sometimes... flop. The only use case I personally have for llms, and they are brilliant at that, is when a word just won't come to mind—I can give it a precise description of it but my brain refuses to produce the word, in English nor Spanish.

yes I'm sure this decision will have lots of well-reasoned and civilized debate around it.

Don't mind me, just here to watch.

The Ubuntu users who cared have already left.

Ive been an Ubuntu user for going on 4 years now. I didnt want to switch, but this will make me do it.

Literally eyeing the door rn