Post #3000925
2026-01-24 22:25 UTC
@sarna@types.pl
> the assumption is that the utility is there
The article does state that assumption explicitly, but yes it's an important point. What I'm trying to work through is that to the degree that AI does do useful stuff, when would I want to use it or avoid it?
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@VZ@fosstodon.org 2026-01-24 23:30
@munificent@mastodon.social Under this assumption, the answer to this question seems to be quite simple: you'd use it when only achieving the result counts. And there certainly are circumstances when this is the case, so the really unclear thing is what kind of things LLMs can genuinely help with. E.g. if they can really produce novel medicaments at a fraction of the time and price it currently takes to do it, they would certainly be worth the hype, wouldn't they?
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@sarna@types.pl 2026-01-25 10:30
@munificent@mastodon.social even if we assume there *is* utility in here, personally I don't see much value in things that have some utility but no meaning. not everything needs to be cost optimized, I'm not a shareholder ;)