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kva | 1 year ago

Given the right prompt, I'm sure it is....but when do users ever enter the right prompt? :(

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richardw|1 year ago

You can't depend on it at all. I mean, you can use it for a tremendous amount of work, but until there is a way to constrain the bullshit LLM's can't be used for anything that requires a correct answer.

The terms "depend" and "require" there are the hard versions. You can't send people to the moon on the outputs of LLM's.

roenxi|1 year ago

I think we'll solve that problem for LLMs before we solve it for humans. Data analysts produce a lot of garbage; data work is really hard. In fact, it isn't uncommon in my experience for the data analyst to be the only person saying "hang on, the quality of this reporting isn't good enough for the decisions you're making from it!" - because they understand what useful information looks like and the company doesn't have much of it.

paulsutter|1 year ago

This is sheer cope

The tools are good for certain tasks and getting better. Master these tools and be ready for what released in the coming months and years

You are either at the center turning the wheel, or you’re on the outside getting spun

williamcotton|1 year ago

Didn’t you get the memo? If you’re holding the hammer by the head and wondering why it isn’t driving the nail in that it is clearly the fault of the manufacturer.

There’s even a handy aphorism to remind you that the user is never to blame: “You’re holding it wrong.”

Jokes aside, I wonder what the general writing abilities and communication skills are for people that cannot for the life of them get usable results from an LLM.

viscanti|1 year ago

OpenAI should make something so that people can enter their prompt and maybe even drop in a knowledge base and then share with anyone else who wants that functionality.

snoman|1 year ago

That’s ptetty close to what GPTs are, with the exception of knowledge bases.

There’s more to it, but the tooling to create a GPT is basically a hand-holding mechanism to create a prompt.

wolpoli|1 year ago

Would the final product be similar to Github copilot, but for prompt?

dimask|1 year ago

If you already know the right answer it is actually easy