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LLM Inevitabilism

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1611 points SwoopsFromAbove | 1 comments | 15 Jul 25 04:35 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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nperez ◴[15 Jul 25 05:50 UTC] No.44568202[source]▶
It's inevitable because it's here. LLMs aren't the "future" anymore, they're the present. They're unseating Google as the SOTA method of finding information on the internet. People have been trying to do that for decades. The future probably holds even bigger things, but even if it plateaus for a while, showing real ability to defeat traditional search is a crazy start and just one example.
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1. imiric ◴[15 Jul 25 06:35 UTC] No.44568452[source]▶
> They're unseating Google as the SOTA method of finding information on the internet.

Hardly. Google is at the frontier of these developments, and has enough resources to be a market leader. Trillion-dollar corporations have the best chances of reaping the benefits of this technology.

Besides, these tools can't be relied on as a source of factual information. Filtering spam and junk from web search results requires the same critical thinking as filtering LLM hallucinations and biases. The worst of both worlds is when "agents" summarize junk from the web.