Many water

very concerning news

Yeah, I use it to spar with when deciding on solving something. I ask it what are the domain-or-language-typical, idiomatic or best-practice ways of solving something. I trace errors by using AI. I even take whole-sale code it produces if it isn’t “serious” like just wanting the HTML or CSS lines that will do the trick.

It will definitely suggest things that I don’t think are correct and then I ignore it. It definitely wastes my time sometimes. I definitely don’t learn things well enough when using it. But I only have so much time and too many problems I need to solve.

Yeah, the current backlash over LLMs in any capacity is a meme. It has turned into tribal politics. There is no longer thought behind the criticisms.

Also, it’s not the stochastic prediction part that makes LLMs “not intelligence” to me. It’s that it’s only predicting the next token in a string of text. I don’t believe this can approach what we do. To me it could well be that some other sort of token prediction is what we do even when we introspect and think of a model of the world.