• tonyn@lemmy.ml
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    12 hours ago

    ChatGPT and other LLMs need access to tools for things like this just like you and I do. If you ask me how many seconds have elapsed since I started typing this, I would give you a convincing estimate. I would need a Casio watch to give you an exact answer.

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      11 hours ago

      Read the article. The AI can’t even give a convincing estimate.

      The point here is that LLMs will never be AIs. They are just text extruders. They are hideously over valued and they are upending society for all the wrong reasons

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      9 hours ago

      This is correct. LLM’s are just the knowledge and information processing bit of our brain. To actually do things we need access to things like our limbs, eyes, ears, watch, computer,…
      Which is why my comment in this thread spoke of an mcp tool and a webhook, which is all thats needed. So a year for that? Fuck off, thats absurdly long for 2 things that already exist and just need to br plugged in the source…