It’s a nice fact that LLMs are pretty smart and useful now but suck at writing good prose. Suggests writing well really is very hard.
Nabeel S. Qureshitwitter.comIt’s a nice fact that LLMs are pretty smart and useful now but suck at writing good prose. Suggests writing well really is very hard.
LLMs are 5/10 writers.
So the fact that you can reliably improve on the explanations in papers and books by asking an LLM to summarize them is a huge condemnation of academic writing.
Dwarkesh Patelx.comThe wisdom that "LLMs just predict text" is true, but misleading in its incompleteness.
"As an AI language model trained by OpenAI..." is an astoundingly poor prediction of what a typical human would write.
Let's resolve this contradiction — a thread:
Riley Goodsidex.com