Comment on Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever!
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 1 day agoSo it’s really good at the thing LLMs are good at. Don’t judge a fish by it’s ability to climb a tree etc…
Comment on Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever!
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 1 day agoSo it’s really good at the thing LLMs are good at. Don’t judge a fish by it’s ability to climb a tree etc…
taladar@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
No, it is mediocre at best compared to other models but LLMs in general have a very minimal usefulness.
FinnFooted@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I get the desire to say this, but I find them extremely helpful in my line of work. Literally everything they say needs to be validated, but so does Wikipedia and we all know that Wikipedia is extremely useful. Its just another tool. But its a very useful tool if you know how to apply it.
taladar@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
But Wikipedia is basically correct 99% of the time on basic facts if you look at non-controversial topics where nobody has an incentive to manipulate it. LLMs meanwhile are lucky if 20% of what they see even has any relationship to reality. Not just complex facts either, if an LLM got wrong how many hands a human being has I wouldn’t be surprised.
FinnFooted@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
LLMs with access to the internet are usually about as factually correct as their search results. If it searches someone’s blog, you’re right, the results will suck. But if you tell it to use higher quality resources, it returns better information. They’re good if you know how to use them. And they aren’t good enough to be replacing as many jobs as all these companies are hoping. LLMs are just going to speed up productivity. They need babysitting and validating. But they’re still an extremely useful tool that’s only going to get better and LLMs are here to stay.