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It delivers on what it promises to do for many people who use LLMs.

Does it though?

They can be used for coding assistance,

They promised no programmers needed in 5 years. (well not promised, somebody did say that but not OpenAI staff, I think). The cost of AI both in money and energy use, does not really justify the limited aid it can provide to a programmer. You are never getting enough additional efficiency from said programmer to justify those costs

Setting up automated customer support,

Even more hated than when every customer centre moved to India

tutoring, processing documents, structuring lots of complex information,

Again, at that cost? the marginal improvement does not add up

a good generally accurate knowledge on many topics,

Is it though? if I can only trust it with answers I already know enough to discern whether I am getting bullshit or not, then it’s not worth it. As it it today, I cannot trust it with any search I really do not know the answer to (or can easily verify) as it can be throwing complete bullshit at me and I would have no way of knowing either.

acting as an editor for your writings, lots more too.

Again? you mentioned the processing docs already… but again I tell you, who will pay the heavy costs just so internal memos are written slightly better? and everything your company sends out would have to be reviewed as you do not want AI promising something you cannot deliver via hallucination

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Bongles@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
You keep mentioning cost, and in the grand scale of “there’s no such thing as a free lunch” there’s a large cost but for users, they’re just paying for a license from Microsoft to have copilot in their visual studio software or in M365 apps, etc.

So for helping with development, it’s really not that expensive for the users. Also, “they” make lots of ridiculous claims, and i don’t know who said it, but no developers in 5 years is a wild claim that no one should’ve thought was real.

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- exanime@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  It’s expensive enough my employer (of more than 2000) decided to only trial it with a small subset of seniors. It’s not just the license, it comes tied up with new hardware
  
  So far nobody likes it. Most people use it to summarize meetings and we just got a memo saying we need to review the summaries because it keeps missing important data
  
  Having said all that, when I mentioned the cost, I was referring to the cost of training the models. And without a proper business plan to monetize it, it’s is still unclear how this version of AI could be actually sold for profit.
  
  Remember that cost, is not just a number. It’s the number in relationships with the benefit it provides.
  
  For OpenAI, it has yet to produce profit that is not just venture capital and for us as user (us, I cannot speak for everyone) it has not saved us a dime after getting expensive hardware and licenses
  
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  - Bongles@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    
    (which you seem to do and keep on posting here)
    
    I’ve only made the comment you’re replying to. I’m not whoever you’re thinking.
    
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    exanime@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Yes, my bad, apologies
    
    I thought you were the person I replied to originally
    
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