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There’s a lot of marketing around llms, with related spam everywhere. For a while i tried using chatgpt for instance as a replacement for google search, but it fails even at that. I do still use it for basic queries but can never be trusted to be reliable.

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Same. Heck, I went to SO just to find an obscure piece of info that help me solve my issue and saved me 1 or 2 days of asking chatGPT the "right" question. ChatGPT is good but you need a "Jarvis" type AI to be Tony Stark and even then Tony must point it in the right direction.

It's a common argument here: "LLMs are overhyped, because they could not solve my super niche issue".

Their current status is basically "very junior programmer with a photographic memory, who has read a sizable chunk of the internet". They are excellent if you regularly need to implement code that has been done before.

Well, given that a good chunk of the audience is treating LLMs as the next step in human intelligence, you tend to be very critical, trying to prove to the other side this is not what they're claiming to be.

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