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LLMs are distinctly different from expert systems.
Expert systems are designed to be perfectly correct in specific domains, but not to communicate.
LLMs are designed to generate confident statements with no regard for correctness.
Don't make me tap the sign
We don't correct people when they are wrong. We do other things.
Yeah. I should have said "illusions of" an expert system or something similar. An LLM can for example produce decent working code to meet a given request, but it can also spit out garbage that doesn't work or has major vulnerabilities. It's a crap shoot
alert alert we've got of one of them on the doorstep
I don't understand what part of their statement you read as pro-LLM
arguing-from-existence of expert systems (which were the fantasy in the previous wave)
Expert systems actually worked.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system
People who know about AI?
you probably don’t know this, but this post is so much funnier than you probably meant it
and it (probably) still won’t save you