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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

We'll see about that. AI is currently approaching the trough of disillusionment on the gartner hype cycle. That's certainly not something one of the largest AI companies will admit to, but probably still true.

And btw, the article doesn't load for me. Not sure if it's my browser or if I'm getting geo blocked... But the page is just white. No text.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This headline certainly seems sensational, but I've also started seeing some really nice uses of LLMs cropping up. Some of the newer API features make them a lot more practical for development of things other than simple chat bots. It remains to be seen if the value delivered is worth the energy/data costs long term, but LLMs in general seems to be finding their feet in some ways.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Sure. I'm mainly basing my opinion on some more recent research (which I can't find right now) that had some disheartening numbers on AI use in programming. As far as I remember it said at the end of the day it saves some time, but not a lot, but on the flipside the code that has been produced by programmers with help of AI has significantly more bugs in it. Which makes me doubt it's a good fit to replace professionals (at this time).

And secondly, the stock prices of companies like Nvidia tell us, some of the hot air in the AI bubble is escaping. I'd say things are calming down a bit, not accellerating.

And regarding law, there is this funny story from a bit ago: https://www.forbes.com/sites/mollybohannon/2023/06/08/lawyer-used-chatgpt-in-court-and-cited-fake-cases-a-judge-is-considering-sanctions/
Well, maybe funny for everyone except that lawyer and his client. And science hasn't made fundamental progress on hallucinations since then. I'd say it's going to start replacing professionals once we get that solved. And that'll be when AI will become massively useful.

And of course it's already very useful within some more narrow use cases.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, I'm talking about calling the LLM with code, not using the LLM to help write the code. They still suck at providing anything reliant on factual accuracy. What they are very good at is extracting meaning from text, e.g. taking a user's natural language request and deciding what to do with it from a set of options.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Sure. I believe that's called "intent classification" and has been around in natural language processing for quite some time.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

A simple lawyer AI bot almost indistinguishable from the real thing:

while(True):

fees+=250.00

sleep(60)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think lawyers actually charge per 15 minutes

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

15 min or 6 min intervals are common. Both divide evenly into 60 minutes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Make it say: "It depends." after each loop and you're set.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lolz, no. Like they were going to revolutionize the engineering space and get rid of all of them?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Exactly the same prolly... LLM is useful for any "learned" profession but so far I have not seen perform beyond college level type thing.

I guess they can be developed better but there isn't training data or not enough to train the model to be as good as a proper professional.

Once that dataset is available then I can see LLMs to start taking some real jobs, legal or anyone else whose job is jockeying paper or spreadsheets or code on a computer.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

LLM is a sorting tool. It's not capable of novel ideation, only derivative. The only thing this might help with is research. Not to mention federal and state regulations require human representation to file anyway.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wordsalad batshit nonsensical lawyer - dude if i wanted that i'd just rep myself

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Let's prompt inject a Sovereign Citizen lawyer

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Good.

Sounds like we need to start talking about the four day work week and we can move from there.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Why, did they give it the launch codes?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

People have often tended to think about AI and robots replacing jobs in terms of working-class jobs like driving, factories, warehouses, etc.

When it starts coming for the professional classes, as this is now starting to, I think things will be different. It's been a long-observed phenomena that many well-off sections of the population hate socialism, except when they need it - then suddenly they are all for it.

I wonder what a small army of lawyers in support of UBI could achieve?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The legal profession won't touch it till it's been 100% proven that hallucinations have been completely eliminated. And when it comes to anything Sam Altmann says. People rarely regret doubting him.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Not all lawyers are that smart or careful. And these are just the ones who let the AI do the work without checking out validating anything! For every lawyer THIS dumb, there are hundreds who let AI do the grunt work, but actually validate the output for hallucination. The main problem is the AI makes them worse lawyers to have because if the AI missed something in the research so will the lawyer.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/new-york-lawyers-sanctioned-using-fake-chatgpt-cases-legal-brief-2023-06-22/

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/a-b-c-lawyer-submitted-fictitious-cases-generated-by-chatgpt-to-the-court-now-she-has-to-pay-for-that-mistake-1.6788128

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Sam Altman watched Terminator and rooted for the machines.

Then Sam Altman watched The Matrix and rooted for the machines.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago