Top physicist says chatbots are just ‘glorified tape recorders’::Leading theoretical physicist Michio Kaku predicts quantum computers are far more important for solving mankind’s problems.

  • BargsimBoyz@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Your statement and the original one can both be in sync with another.

    Microsoft Word is just a glorified notepad but it still improves my productivity significantly.

    And everyone will have different uses depending on their needs. Chatgpt has done nothing for my productivity/usually adds work as I have to double check all the nonsensical crap it gives me for example and then correct it.

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      1 year ago

      Those are all gross oversimplifications. By the same logic the internet is just a glorified telephone, the computer is a glorified abacus, the telephone is just a glorified messenger pigeon. There are lots of people who don’t understand LLMs and exaggerate its capabilities but dismissing it is also bad.

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      1 year ago

      I think describing word processors as glorified notepads would also be extremely misleading, to the extent that I would describe that statement as incorrect.