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[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 months ago (21 children)

It's in the quote that they scaled it.

The point is that the entire alleged value is the ability to parse the reading material and extract the key points, but because it doesn't resemble intelligence in any way, it isn't actually capable of meaningfully doing so.

Yes, not being able to distinguish between the real answer and a "banana for scale" analogy is a big problem that shows how fucking useless the technology is.

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It’s in the quote that they scaled it.

Yes but they supposedly scaled it to "one meter per meter". A "scale where the distance from the Sun to Earth is 150 million km" is the actual distance.

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

lol I did miss that, but it was enough to make it not a guess that its source was scaling for comparison.

My whole point was the same as your OP, though. A condom that's 95% effective isn't worth shit. You can't let a toy without reading comprehension do your reading for you.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

But the thing is condoms ARE 98% effective, and yet people still use them every single day.

Nothing is perfect, humans, AI/LLMs, etc, no matter what, absolutely nothing is.

Regardless, anything I say about AI/LLMs that isn't that it's terrible and useless and nobody should/would ever use it is going to be met with criticism.

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