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There’s a big difference between LLMs and this application of CNNs and RNNs.

Very few people on HN are claiming there’s no value to neural networks — CNNs have been heralded here for well over a decade.

There are definitely things they’re good at. And there’s definitely things that they’re bad at, worse than nothing at all. The problem is how often they’re being used in the later case, and how rarely in the former.

Build a strawman, knock him down, and plant the glorious flag of hyperbole on his strawwy corpse.