Because in a lot of applications you can bypass hallucinations.
getting sources for something
as a jump off point for a topic
to get a second opinion
to help argue for r against your position on a topic
get information in a specific format
In all these applications you can bypass hallucinations because either it’s task is non-factual, or it’s verifiable while promoting, or because you will be able to verify in any of the superseding tasks.
Just because it makes shit up sometimes doesn’t mean it’s useless. Like an idiot friend, you can still ask it for opinions or something and it will definitely start you off somewhere helpful.
Yes, but for some tasks mistakes don’t really matter, like “come up with names for my project that does X”. No wrong answers here really, so an LLM is useful.
And yet virtually all of software has names that took some thought, creativity, and/or have some interesting history. Like the domain name of your Lemmy instance. Or Lemmy.
And people working on something generally want to be proud of their project and not name it the first thing that comes to mind, but take some time to decide on a name.
Because in a lot of applications you can bypass hallucinations.
In all these applications you can bypass hallucinations because either it’s task is non-factual, or it’s verifiable while promoting, or because you will be able to verify in any of the superseding tasks.
Just because it makes shit up sometimes doesn’t mean it’s useless. Like an idiot friend, you can still ask it for opinions or something and it will definitely start you off somewhere helpful.
All LLMs are text completion engines, no matter what fancy bells they tack on.
If your task is some kind of text completion or repetition of text provided in the prompt context LLMs perform wonderfully.
For everything else you are wading through territory you could probably do easier using other methods.
Also just searching the web in general.
Google is useless for searching the web today.
Not if you want that thing that everyone is on about. Don’t you want to be in with the crowd?! /s
so, basically, even a broken clock is right twice a day?
Yes, but for some tasks mistakes don’t really matter, like “come up with names for my project that does X”. No wrong answers here really, so an LLM is useful.
great value for all that energy it expends, indeed!
How is that faster than just picking a random name? Noone picks software based on name.
And yet virtually all of software has names that took some thought, creativity, and/or have some interesting history. Like the domain name of your Lemmy instance. Or Lemmy.
And people working on something generally want to be proud of their project and not name it the first thing that comes to mind, but take some time to decide on a name.
No, maybe more like, even a functional clock is wrong every 0.8 days.
https://superuser.com/questions/759730/how-much-clock-drift-is-considered-normal-for-a-non-networked-windows-7-pc
The frequency is probably way higher for most LLMs though lol