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AI is effectively ‘useless'—and it's created a ‘fake it till you make it’ bubble that could end in disaster, veteran market watcher warns (fortune.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

You use LLMs for everything? Seems strange, as they don't reason. They are specifically designed to mimic human speech. So they are great for tasks that require presenting information that looks intelligible, or at least are very easily testable, but beyond that you run into serious issues with hallucination fast...

Or do you mean "AI" as in data science and automation? That's a very different thing which is a bit off topic. That Kind of "AI" is neither new nor has the hallucination/ecological/cost/training effort issues associated with it

I dunno dude, all your answers talk about "AI" in suspiciously vague terms. "I use AI to ..." is the new "built with blockchain". Skip the marketing terms and talk shop.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

LLMs

For example if I need to generate a long formula for excel or power apps, I could write it myself or I can just tell the LLM the parameters and it will do it in 1/10th of time.

If I need to create course material, I can shove in bullet points for my key topics and have it expand it into a first draft for me. This concept I actually use a lot more than just for course material. It's great at generating drafts of everything from statements of work and quotes to presentations (Co-Pilot in 365)

I know how to do the job without it, so hallucinations are easily caught and cleaned up. It's a tool to speed me up, not replace me.