For most tasks, ChatGPT and other LLMs are just an unnecessary step. In the time it takes to get your prompt just right, verify the info, and clean up the writing, a competent person could have just done the work with their own brain.
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I feel like most people who think LLMs are useful believe that "useful" means "has a use"
But I feel that is a really low bar and we should consider that the bar for technology be "has a better use than the component parts"
LLMs don't pass that bar and should be scrapped for those more useful parts.
I feel like AI can offer big help in certain areas, and even LLMs have their place. But I keep getting crap shoved in my face as the next big thing that's either completely useless or horrible quality. It's like people want to offer some shiny object when something more basic is actually good.
Yeah tons of totally useless applications that are pushed HARD on users because some upper-management dummie invested way too much money in the technology
I don’t know enough about your work to effectively parse this. Like I have a very general idea what’s going on here but it’s impossible for me to know if the AI is doing it correctly.
xD The content is erroneous but it's the scale of information that's impressive. Even if it's wrong I can do far deeper research and verification, every single time to the same depth.
honestly I don't really have alot of problem with wrong answers. Git lets you roll back changes and start from stable when things get weird. Very important to keep things separated tho!
I mean, we might not be using the same ones. In my experience ChatGPT sucks at writing and people who write for a living don’t need it and shouldn’t use it.
This just doesn’t really seem necessary for any writer whose workflow I’m personally familiar with. Frankly I’ve found even a regular Trello board to be overkill.
I’m curious about ways it could eventually help me remember things and manage my time as a person with ADHD, but so far I haven’t found any tools more helpful than just manually entering stuff into calendars and setting reminders
lol yes I remember as a little kid doing all kinds of weird stuff to convince my parents I had washed my hair and brushed my teeth when it would have been faster and easier to just wash my hair and brush my teeth.
I used it for the first draft of a job description I had to submit at work because there are few things I hate drafting more. It was decent! Unfortunately, I ended up hiring a spam bot by mistake. But still!
So there, LLMs are not entirely useless. They have one marginally useful ability.
Yeah, there are a few situations where it’s marginally useful. When you consider the environmental impact and the dubious ethics of training it on stolen material, it hardly seems worth it.
And in most cases, CharGPT doesn’t make you look tech-literate, or like an early adopter. It makes you look like you don’t understand the difference between a search engine and an LLM. That’s actually a crucial thing if your job, like most “knowledge” work, requires any kind of basic research skills
And why would you want a third party to write a rough draft for you? The point of writing is to tell people what you know, not what the LLM statistically predicted.
I don't use them myself, but there is a use case for people who are less literate either from an education pov or dyslexia etc, where doing those tasks is well-nigh impossible.
Unfortunately those users are less capable of doing the checking required for using llms.
Yeah, and people in these situations are presumably not working jobs where writing and/or expressing ideas is a key part of the role. If you’re a welder who needs help writing a letter to the city, that’s a lot more reasonable than a marketing guy outsourcing his work to ChatGPT.
I have a work colleague who uses it to write documentation and first draft plans. He gets a lot of things done but now sometimes comes across as an overly verbose imbecile.
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But I feel that is a really low bar and we should consider that the bar for technology be "has a better use than the component parts"
LLMs don't pass that bar and should be scrapped for those more useful parts.
They should however absolutely use Claude for workflow management.
So there, LLMs are not entirely useless. They have one marginally useful ability.
That’s about it though. It is a third party writing a rough draft for me.
That’s helpful, but not transformative.
Unfortunately those users are less capable of doing the checking required for using llms.
For a while it'll be easy to spot the llmers, but eventually the only difference will be that they don't get quite the outcomes they were wanting.
It also takes notes just fine etc
The app is important right now. It will help lots of people and keep us from being homeless.