CIRCLE WITH A DOT

i feel like i was innoculated against llm hype because in like 2015 i spent a few hours laughing my ass off at the half-successful attempts to generate MTG cards and the absolutely unsuccessful experiment where they tried to do the same thing with a database of recipes and i was like oh, it works for MTG because nothing in that game refers anything outside of the symbols being manipulated

when you've promised investors that in a matter of months no one is going to need anything but a hammer, everything looks like a nail

even building robust indices of the texts ingested by an LLM would be a better use of computational resources. recreating information from them probabalistically is just such a dumbfuck idea.

who would win

running convex optimization on a few hundred million tokens of scraped text

vs

a bare minimum amount of programatic effort to analyze common query phrases and connect them to the relevant databases

LLMs are absolutely stumbling over shit WolframAlpha was able to fifteen years ago for a fraction of the cost

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