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I wonder if we'll see LLM elevator scheduling

I apologize for bringing you to the 29th floor instead of the 3rd floor as you requested. That's on me. I will do better next time.

I want to own something here: this is the fourth time in a row I’ve brought you to the 29th floor when you asked for the third. I am creating a memory to always go to the 3rd floor instead of the 29th, which should prevent this from happening again.

Small wrinkle: the existing documentation indicates that the 29th floor is in fact the 3rd floor.

Sorry, I forgot that this building only has 18 floors, it's on me that your elevator is now airborne.

Would you like to learn more? If you meant an aircraft elevator or a building elevator malfunction, tell me more so I can give you the right facts.

It sounds like you are looking for Happy Vertical People Transporters with Genuine People Personalities.

As long as they're not afraid of the future!

No thanks, I'll take the alleviator :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNuFcIRlwdc

Most likely not. I think all the big players have been using more traditional ML approaches for years. Then again someone new might go there and fail miserably.

This is an industry that evolves extremely slowly. A decade back one of the big players in this space was still using a software emulation of their original hardware relay logic, because it was cheaper than retraining all the technicians...

It is just the reality that LLMs are not superior for this purpose. They are most likely very much inferior. There is no need to use language models for something that involve no language.

I feel weirded each time LLMs are suggested for anything as some sort of holy solution for every single problem. Robot surgery let LLM control it. Robots cooking LLMs. Nuclear power plants and oil refineries LLMs... Industry has find a sledge hammer and now everything is a nail...

IBM's Watson has been used for elevator scheduling.

Then it'll be time to make an entirely new software accreditation system, simply so that anyone building such a thing can be disbarred/excommunicated.

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