LLMs
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LLMs
“A more practical answer is that it’s a file. This right here is a large language model, called Vicuna 7B. It’s a 4.2 gigabyte file on my computer. If you open the file, it’s just numbers. These things are giant binary blobs of numbers…”
Simon Willison, attempting to explain LLM
People need to be more thoughtful building products on top of LLMs. The fact that they generate text is not the point.
thesephist.comstream.thesephist.com"A key challenge of (LLMs) is that they do not come with a manual! They come with a “Twitter influencer manual” instead, where lots of people online loudly boast about the things they can do with a very low accuracy rate, which is really frustrating..."
Simon Willison, attempting to explain LLM
People are intrigued by LLMs’ ability to generate new text, change styles, and generally chat. While impressive, turning text written in one style into text written in your own voice (or into legaleze) is essentially taking unstructured data and turning it into more unstructured data. I’m surprised about the lack of attention to doing the exact... See more
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"the best use case of LLMs is bullshit"
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