Money quote:

Excel requires some skill to use (to the point where high-level Excel is a competitive sport), and AI is mostly an exercise in deskilling its users and humanity at large.

  • @Honytawk@feddit.nl
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    677 days ago

    Why would anyone use an LLM as calculator?

    That just doesn’t make sense.

    It is like using a calculator as typewriter because it can spell 80085.

      • Echo Dot
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        57 days ago

        I did this with my car when I got to that point and sent it to my girlfriend, but I photoshopped it so it said I was going over 100. Anyway I thought it was funny.

      • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘
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        16 days ago

        Did you just take a picture of your car’s boobs at 60k/h? High speed boobs shots hahahaha

        • @Rambomst@lemmy.world
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          36 days ago

          Maybe :P

          It’s a legal requirement when your car hits 80085 that you must take a photo, it supersedes all other laws.

    • @jim3692@discuss.online
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      46 days ago

      To waste electric energy. All those power plants produce immense amounts of energy that needs to be consumed. If we didn’t have LLMs, the pollution of those plants would be for nothing. At least now, there is an attempt to put it in good use.

    • @filcuk@lemmy.zip
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      17 days ago

      Well, there is a use case.
      I don’t know much about statistics. I can (i assume) as the ai questions in natural language that I would otherwise have to research how to calculate.
      Of course, I may get a result, but I won’t be any smarter. If that was the goal, then great.