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Why do you like LLMs? (self.fosai)
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Genuinely curious.

Why do you like LLMs? What hopes do you have for AI & AGI in our near and distant future?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
  1. I fucking hate googling. The internet has completely degenerated into a useless mess of SEO leeches. LLMs save so much time. Even if they are often wrong they are still 10x better than Google.
  2. Imagine how insane they will make future video games.
  3. I have a lot of unordered notes and the only feasable way to organize them at this point are LLMs.
  4. I've always been bad at grammar, spelling, punctuation, phrasing etc because of dyslexia/AuDHD, so they make professional writing much easier.
  5. Imagine how much time it would save to not have to read through manuals, Q&A sections etc and you can literally just ask the documentation.
  6. They are extremely good at recommending things like movies to watch or listing different options. It's like having literally every expert in every field available at your finger tips at all times.
  7. They will be amazing at preserving our privacy/anonymity online by rewriting our texts to make them unidentifyable.
  8. They might allow us to communicate with animals more effectively. E.g. that one project to decypher whale language.
  9. Dying languages could be preserved for eternity.
  10. Lots of previously unused/unordered knowledge can be integrated into zeitgeist. Like indigenous knowledge.
  11. I would love to see LLMs trained ona giant conspiracy theory or esoteric corpus. Would be cool to talk to those lol.
[–] Blaed 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I never considered 8 - 11. Those are really interesting use cases. I’m with you on every other point. I’m particularly interested in solving the messy unstructured notes scenario. I really feel you on that one. I’ll see what I can do!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I came up with a few more in case you need more inspiration:

  1. It would also be amazing for anamnesis (collecting a patient's medical history). I feel like doctors aren't very thourogh with this. Imagine if you could tell your medical history to an AI, and it will ask relevant questions expanding on that. E.g. "I have a stomach ache" "when does it happen? where is it? what does it feel like?" "After I eat, on the right side under my ribs, I can't say" "is it sharp an piecing or more like a burn?"... etc. It could even give suggestions about what specialists to see and eventually you could integrate it all with statistical models that actually have diagnostic power. Ideally you would want one giant ensemble model you feed all your medical data into and it can diagnose you.

My experience is that you need to go to 10 doctors until you get the right diagnosis. If you have a model that gets it right only 50% of the time, that's still better than the doctors. Especially if you train them to give you all possible diagnosis that fit your case.

  1. Same thing for psychotherapy. An AI is probably better than nothing. And I'm pretty confident that it could be a very good solution eventually.

I know these topics are sensitive, but the potential upside is enormous. Even if the model isn't perfect, it just has to be better than the alternative. Which more often than not is no or shitty health care.

  1. Also with plant and mushroom id LLMs could be helpful. They could ask you pertinent questions about the morphology of the plant/fungus, and give you a risk profile, what plants/fungi can easily be mixed up etc..

  2. You could probably tell an LLM what food you have at home and it could suggest recipies.

  3. You could make one talk with itself nonstop as two different characters when you're out on vacation, to hopefully shoo away burglars.

  4. Literally every kid would have the smartest, most patient teacher available to them 24/7

  5. You could have a image to text model interactively explain the world around them to the visually impaired.

  6. In general I hope that LLMs embrace reinforcement learning and become much more user customizable. Not just LLMs, other model too, like text to image or any to any. I could see models being the future where you basically get 9 outputs, you label the ones you like and the ones you don't like, the you get 9 more, rinse and repeat, and the model output slowly moves to EXACTLY what you had in mind. Not just trough zero-shot learning, but actual learning too. Imagine you had a model that could generate movies. You just tell it what you like and what you don't like and it will generate a first movie. Anything you don't like during that movie, you just tell it on the fly. After the 10th movie hopefully it would only generate movies that are perfect for you.

  7. Huge input length models like LongNet or retrieval based models would be great to generate entire worldbuilding scenarios. With detailed and coherent histories for many different countries/characters/arcs etc.. You could have a video game that comes up with entire coherent worlds tailored to your likings, adapting to your decisions on the fly.

  8. Similarly, a good night story telling model.

  9. A parental advice model. So many parents have zero idea how to raise healthy children. Having an AI sidekick could help with that. An impartial force that will tell you when your parenting style is counterproductive.

  10. You could let a bunch of LLM powered solar robots loose that prentend like they are spirits, causing mischief. (they will demand you solve a riddle, else they don't let you pass the bridge)

  11. You could train LLMs on the letters of famous people of history and talk to them as if they were still alive.

  12. You could have your car guilt trip you if you are being a bad driver. Similarly it could join you in passionately complaing about other drivers.

  13. You could have an LLM that is trained to plan your leasure time. Optimized to always make you do something different, go to a different local restaurant etc..