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LLM Inevitabilism

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1616 points SwoopsFromAbove | 1 comments | 15 Jul 25 04:35 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Workaccount2 ◴[15 Jul 25 12:54 UTC] No.44570646[source]▶
People like communicating in natural language.

LLMs are the first step in the movement away from the "early days" of computing where you needed to learn the logic based language and interface of computers to interact with them.

That is where the inevitabilism comes from. No one* wants to learn how to use a computer, they want it to be another entity that they can just talk to.

*I'm rounding off the <5% who deeply love computers.

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1. yoyohello13 ◴[15 Jul 25 17:19 UTC] No.44573565[source]▶
Logic based languages are useful because they are unambiguous. Natural language is far less efficient for communicating hard requirements. Why do you think mathematical notation exists? It’s not just because the ivory tower elites want to sound smart. It’s a more efficient medium for communicating mathematical ideas.