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I used to think that LLMs were just parrots. But it looks like parrots at scale can actually be useful. I keep on seeing new uses regularly. This is one that I would have never imagined. It's been less than a year since the start of chatGPT. Now, imagine 10 yrs from now. LLMs will impact society in ways we can't even imagine.

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My water heater stopped working a few weeks ago. I told ChatGPT what I was seeing and it told me which part to replace. I had never worked on a water heater before and fixing it was no problem with its instructions.

OTOH, I didn't realize until I got in there that there's only like 3 parts in a water heater so it wasn't as complicated as I imagined but I didn't have its breadth of knowledge.

I mean, if he just googled a few websites he'd get the same information. I guess these days there's enough blogspam (ironically, increasingly AI generated) that having an LLM cut through it if you aren't sure of what handful of reputable sources you should check for a given topic might be a slight effort and time-saver, but it isn't providing anything that's not fairly immediately accessible.

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