Ángela Stella Matutina@angelastella@social.treehouse.systems
Follow Derek Lowe for the chemistry, keep reading him for his honesty:
LLMs are text generators, working on probabilities of what their next word choice should be based on what has been seem in their training sets, then dispensing answer-shaped nuggets in smooth, confident, grammatical form. This is not reasoning and it is not understanding - at its best, it is an illusion that can pass for them. And that’s what it is at its worst, too.(https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/llms-medical-practice-look-out)
There are ways of using machine learning for solving actual problems. The bullshit being sold to us as "AI" isn't that, ever.