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LLM Inevitabilism

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1612 points SwoopsFromAbove | 1 comments | 15 Jul 25 04:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.342s | 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. raincole ◴[15 Jul 25 11:25 UTC] No.44570025[source]▶
Debating whether LLM is future is like debating whether online advertising is future. We've long, long passed that point. It's present, and it's not going to magically go away.

Is online advertising good for the society? Probably not.

Can you use ad blockers? Yes.

Can you avoid putting ads on your personal website? Yes.

All of these are irrelevant in the context of "inevitabilism." Online advertising happened. So did LLM.