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Ouija boards made of databases don't really think
But they know
No, they give you an answer that should sound correct enough to enable them to score a positive interaction.
Why do you think so many GPT answers seem plausible but don't work? Because it has very very little actual logic
To be precise, 0.
Expecting current gen tool to be as smart as humans? Doesn't mean they're useless. They can translate words to images and explain art in terms of business.
They add capabilities not replace.
I don't disagree, but this is a wildfire of interest right now and there's a lot of people not recognizing this facet of how gpts operate. You have to really vocally recognize it's weakness so it can be mitigated (hopefully).
They poison all repositories of knowledge with their useless slop.
They are plummeting us into a dark age which we are unlikely to survive.
Sure, it's not the LLMs fault specifically, it's the bastards who are selling them as sources of information instead of information-shaped slop, but they're still being used to murder the future in the name of short term profits.
So, no, they're not useless. They're infinitely worse than that.
Hear me out, Ollama.
Hear me out, Eliza. It'll be equally useless and for orders of magnitude less cost. And no one will mistakenly or fraudulently call it AI.