Language without meaning is garbage. Like, literal garbage, useful for nothing. Language is a tool used to express ideas, if there are no ideas being expressed then it’s just a combination of letters.
Which is exactly why LLMs are useless.
Language without meaning is garbage. Like, literal garbage, useful for nothing. Language is a tool used to express ideas, if there are no ideas being expressed then it’s just a combination of letters.
Which is exactly why LLMs are useless.
Iconoclast@feddit.uk 3 days ago
800 million weekly ChatGPT users disagree with that.
RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
And there are 1.3 billion smokers in the world according to the WHO.
Does that make cigarettes useful?
Iconoclast@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Something being useful doesn’t imply it’s good or beneficial. Those terms are not synonymous. It describes whether a thing achieves a particular goal or serves a specific purpose effectively.
A torture device is useful for extracting information. A landmine is useful for denying an area to enemy troops.
Urist@leminal.space 3 days ago
No it fucking isn’t! This is a great analogy, actually, thank you for bringing it up. A person being tortured will tell you literally anything that they believe will stop you from torturing them. They will confess to crimes that never happened, tell you about all their accomplices who don’t exist, and all their daily schedules that were made up on the spot. Torture is useless but morons think it is useful. Just like AI.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Wow did you write all those sentences all by yourself? Very good job! So impressive!
Urist@leminal.space 3 days ago
Those users are being harmed by it, not benefited. That isn’t useful, it’s a social disease.