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AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns (www.irishtimes.com)
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Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth

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[–] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 16 hours ago

Fundamentally due to it's design, LLMs are digital duct tape.

The entire history of computer science has been making compromises between efficient machine code and human readable language. LLM's solve this in a beautifully janky way, like duct tape.

But it's ultimately still a compromise, you'll never get machine accuracy from an LLM because it's sole purpose is to fulfill the "human readable" part of that deal. So it's applications are revolutionary in the same way as "how did you put together this car engine with only duct tape?" kind of way.