LLMs are a fundamentally different category of thing to software. Developing them is closer to breeding cows than writing code.
replyI definitely agree on this. You don't program an LLM and thus come to an understanding of what it does in the same way you do for a compiler, an operating system, a game engine, a CRUD app, or a web front-end.
replySomething that's the output of mass-effort machine learning algorithms is categorically different to human-made-and-understandable software. Do we have terms for these different categories?
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replyThe damage isn't restricted to software. AI is the intellectual equivalent of asbestos.
replyAsbestos is an amazing fire retardant. That's why nearly every building built before we knew how cancerous it was contains it.