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Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What kind of use-cases was it, where you didn’t find suitable local models to work with ?

Any time you ask very domain specific questions; eg "i have collected some soil samples from the mesolithic age near the Amazon basin which have high sulfur and phosphorus content compared to my other samples. What factors could contribute to this distribution?", both of-the-shelf local models & OpenAI fail.

The main reason is because these models are not trained on highly-specialized domains of text. Sometimes the models start hallucinating and which reduces our trust upon them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

“i have collected some soil samples from the mesolithic age near the Amazon basin which have high sulfur and phosphorus content compared to my other samples. What factors could contribute to this distribution?”

Haha yeah the top execs were tripping balls if they thought some off-the-shelf product would be able to answer this kind of expert questions. That's like trying to replace an expert craftsman with a 3D printer.