Post

I don’t think there’s a single serious critic who says AI’s not useful? The concerns I see are about content rights, worker impacts, environmental effects, epistemological threats, or media manipulation. But that’s all predicated on the idea that it *does* work, often too well for people to manage…

this is a classification error which is caused by people trying to capitalise on the hype around LLMs by defining useful and mature machine learning technologies as AI for marketing reasons but LLMs are not useful, they arrive at the wrong answer the same way as the right one

LLM proponents call it a hallucination when it makes stuff up or gets the wrong answer, but in reality everything an LLM outputs is a hallucination there is no reasoning involved in how it reaches a conclusion, it's effectively a probabilistic gambling engine for knowledge