[fabianhjr]

> The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. ~ Edsger W. Dijkstra

LLMs / Generative Models can have a profound societal and economic impact without being intelligent. The obsession with intelligence only make their use haphazard and dangerous.

It is a good thing court of laws have established precedent that organizations deploying LLM chatbots are responsible for their output (Eg, Air Canada LLM chatbot promising a non-existent discount being responsibility of Air Canada)

Also most automation has been happening without LLMs/Generative Models. Things like better vision systems have had an enormous impact with industrial automation and QA.

[agentultra]

The conclusion of the article admits that in areas where stochastic outputs are expected these AI models will continue to be useful.

It’s in area where we demand correctness and determinism that they will not be suitable.

I think the thrust of this article is hard to see unless you have some experience with formal methods and verification. Or else accept the authors’ explanations as truth.