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An LLM has never generated a correct answer to any of my queries.
That seems unlikely, unless "any" means two.
Perhaps the problem is that I never bothered to ask anything trivial enough, but you'd think that two rhyming words starting with 'L" would be simple.
"AI" is a really dumb term for what we're all using currently. General LLMs are not intelligent, it's assigning priorities to tokens (words) in a database, based on what tokens were provided before it, to compare and guess the next most logical word and phrase, really really fast. Informed guesses, sure, but there's not enough parameters to consider all the factors required to identify a rhyme.
That said, honestly I'm struggling to come up with 2 rhyming L words? Lol even rhymebrain is failing me. I'm curious what you went with.
Ok, by asking you mean that you find somewhere questions that someone identified as being answered wrongly by LLM, and asking yourself.
Nope.
I’ve asked GPT4 to write specific Python programs, and more often than not it does a good job. And if the program is incorrect I can tell it about the error and it will often manage to fix it for me.
I don't believe you
I only "believe the hype" because a good developer friend of mine suggested I try copilot so I did and was impressed. It's an amazing technical achievement that helps me get my job done. It's useful every single day I use it. Does it do my job for me? No of fucking course not, I'm not a moron who expected that to begin with. It speeds up small portions of tasks and if I don't understand or agree with its solution, it's insanely easy not to use it.
People online mad about something new is all this is. There are valid concerns about this kind of tech, but I rarely see that. Ignorance on the topic prevails. Anyone calling ai "useless" in a blanket statement is necessarily ignorant and doesn't really deserve my time except to catch a quick insult for being the ignorant fool they have revealed themselves to be.
You would need to be pulling some trickery on Microsoft to get access to copilot for more than a single 30 day trial so I'm skeptical you've actually used it. Sounds like you're using other products which may be much worse. It also sounds like you work in a conservative shop. Good luck with that
Yeah you just illustrated you have no idea what copilot is like. But you were convinced you were an expert on it. Lol
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