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Cake day: March 6th, 2025
  • You can use LLMs for things that where not possible or very difficult with traditional search engines.

    E.g. I wanted to know what kind of brake my daughters bike used. Traditionally I’d either have to research all possible brake types and compare then with her bike or take a photo and post it to a forum or reddit or something and hope someone knows the answer.

    With ChatGPT (I only use the free version) I just took a photo and asked what kind of break it was and got a (actually good) list of 2 possible brakes. It was one of the two.

    Very convenient. However, I’m aware how LLMs work and what their limitations are. Of course also the environmental issues.

    BTW: It was a band brake.

  • It depends on training, prompting and reasoning capabilities.

    Sometimes they’re prompted to not be assertive. You can often tell them though to e.g. “behave like an XYZ expert in a bad mood who doesn’t accept nonsense”.

    I’ve had e.g. ChatGPT contest me a lot even though I was right. It was about a bicycle brake design I had never seen before. It gave me some options of what it could be and helped me to actually find out what it was. However after I did some research and found out what the actual type was it kept doubting my result and insisted it was a different kind of brake.