I use LLMs throughout my personal and professional life. The productivity gains are immense. Yes hallucination is a problem but it’s just as spam/ads/misinformation on wikipedia/internet—an small drawback that doesn’t oblivate the ginormous potential of the internet/LLMs
I am 95% certain you are leaving value on the table.
I do agree straight LLMs are not generally intelligent (in the sense of universal intelligence/AIXI) and therefore not completely comparable to humans.
On LLMs vs search on internet: agree that LLMs are very helpful in many ways, both personally and professionally, but the worse parts of the misinformation in LLM comparing to wikipedia/internets in my opinion includes: 1) it is relatively more unpredictable when the model will hallucinate, whereas for wikipedia/internet, you would generally expect higher accuracy for simpler/purely factual/mathematical information. 2) it is harder to judge the credibility without knowing the source of the information, whereas on the internet, we could get some signals where the website domain, etc.
I use LLMs throughout my personal and professional life. The productivity gains are immense. Yes hallucination is a problem but it’s just as spam/ads/misinformation on wikipedia/internet—an small drawback that doesn’t oblivate the ginormous potential of the internet/LLMs
I am 95% certain you are leaving value on the table.
I do agree straight LLMs are not generally intelligent (in the sense of universal intelligence/AIXI) and therefore not completely comparable to humans.
On LLMs vs search on internet: agree that LLMs are very helpful in many ways, both personally and professionally, but the worse parts of the misinformation in LLM comparing to wikipedia/internets in my opinion includes: 1) it is relatively more unpredictable when the model will hallucinate, whereas for wikipedia/internet, you would generally expect higher accuracy for simpler/purely factual/mathematical information. 2) it is harder to judge the credibility without knowing the source of the information, whereas on the internet, we could get some signals where the website domain, etc.