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mrtranscendence | 1 year ago

I suspect you're overstating the degree to which an LLM might be unsuitable for some types of work. For example, I'm a data scientist who works primarily in the field of sales forecasting. I've found that LLMs are quite poor at this task, frequently providing answers that are inappropriate, misleading, or simply not a good fit for the data we're working with. In general I've found very limited use in engaging LLMs in discussion about my work.

I don't think I'm calling myself a super special snowflake here. These models are just ... bad at sales forecasting.

LLMs aren't entirely useless for me. I'll use ChatGPT to generate code to make plots. That's helpful.

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llm_nerd|1 year ago

I would never recommend an LLM for sales forecasting. It's just the wrong tool for that job.

mrtranscendence|1 year ago

You seem to readily agree that my use case is inappropriate for LLMs, but not ToucanLoucan?