Comment on ‘We didn’t vote for ChatGPT’: Swedish Prime Minister under fire for using AI
pycorax@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoThe very nature of how it functions is unreliable. It’s a statistical probabilistic model. It’s great for what it was designed to do but imagining that it has any way of rationalising data is purely that, just imagination. Even if let’s say we accept that it makes an error rate at the same rate as humans do (if it can even identify an error reliably), there’s no accountability in place that ensures that it would check the correctness like a human would.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I understand perfectly how LLMs work, and I made no claims about what they can do. Taking them on their own capabilities, not what some lying-through-their-teeth marketer said, is there a reason to say they ‘shouldn’t exist’?
Siegfried@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
OP didn’t phrase it as “should they exist” but as “do we need them to exist”.
And personally i think not, we don’t need them. In text generation they are good… inspiration? They are more of an inspiration killer imo.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
We don’t NEED any particular technology to exist. That’s a weird distinction to make.
Different minds work differently.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No, mankind certainly needs a lot of techonologies (maybe just out of built dependency) either to mantain our living standards or just plainly to ensure that we produce and distribute enough resources for everyone to survive.
We need LLMs as much as we needed 3D movies or augmented reality.