Perhaps as an example, I can offer some comparisons between myself and my co-workers.
None of us are programmers. None of us are ever going to become programmers. We have reached a point where it is vitally necessary that people who are not programmers reach a level of understanding that will allow them to sensibly make the decisions they are going to have to make about how to use machine learning models.
Compared to them, I am much more able to predict what LLMs will and won’t be good at. I can create user prompts. I know what system prompts are and where I can read the officially published/leaked ones. I have some understanding of what goes on during some of the stages of training. I understand that and at least some of the reasons why this computer program is different from other computer programs.
I have encountered the kind of responses I’m getting here before—people seem to underestimate how much there is that it is possible to know in between ‘nothing’ and ‘things you cannot possibly comprehend unless you are a programmer’. They also don’t seem to have a sense of urgency about how vital it is that people who are not programmers—let’s say, doctors—are enabled to learn enough about machine learning models to enable them to make sensible decisions about using them.
Perhaps as an example, I can offer some comparisons between myself and my co-workers.
None of us are programmers. None of us are ever going to become programmers. We have reached a point where it is vitally necessary that people who are not programmers reach a level of understanding that will allow them to sensibly make the decisions they are going to have to make about how to use machine learning models.
Compared to them, I am much more able to predict what LLMs will and won’t be good at. I can create user prompts. I know what system prompts are and where I can read the officially published/leaked ones. I have some understanding of what goes on during some of the stages of training. I understand that and at least some of the reasons why this computer program is different from other computer programs.
I have encountered the kind of responses I’m getting here before—people seem to underestimate how much there is that it is possible to know in between ‘nothing’ and ‘things you cannot possibly comprehend unless you are a programmer’. They also don’t seem to have a sense of urgency about how vital it is that people who are not programmers—let’s say, doctors—are enabled to learn enough about machine learning models to enable them to make sensible decisions about using them.