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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    12 hours 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.

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      1 hour 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.

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      4 hours 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.