visarga 5 days ago

> The LLM market is a market of hype

It's certainly not magic or super human, but it's not nothing either. Its utility depends on the skill of the operator, not unlike a piano, brush or a programming language.

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smodo 5 days ago

I’m still hurting from when I didn’t listen to Yamaha’s warnings about the dangers of piano music.

Incipient 5 days ago

The fundamental difference, which has been glossed over here, and people often don't think about is that AI as a tool is the first of its kind that is random-esque (yeah I know, non deterministic).

Imagine pressing G on a piano and sometimes getting a F, or A, depending on what the piano 'felt' like giving you.

So it definitely IS unlike a piano, brush, etc. What that means however in terms of skill/utility...I'm not too sure.