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LLM Inevitabilism

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1613 points SwoopsFromAbove | 1 comments | 15 Jul 25 04:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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. techpineapple ◴[15 Jul 25 19:11 UTC] No.44574762[source]▶
“People like communicating in natural language”

I would actually want to see some research on this. Maybe? But I’d think there would be a lot of exceptions. At its most basic, I’d rather flick my thumb than constantly say “scroll down”. And I think that you’d want to extrapolate that out.