Hardcore Software by Steven Sinofsky

Hardcore Software by Steven Sinofsky

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220. Are AI Expectations Too High or Misplaced?

Have expectations for AI been getting too high? Not high enough? Thinking about how AI has evolved in past boom/bust cycles.

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Steven Sinofsky
Jun 16, 2024

LLMs and Search

The idea that the current state of the art LLMs would simply replace search might go down as one of most premature or potentially misguided strategy “blunders” in a long time. Check out this example below, though it is just one of an endless set of places where LLMs convincingly provide an incorrect answer.

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