My wife’s company is using one that listens to meetings and writes up summaries, including calling out action items and bullet points. It’s really quite good, and - importantly - people in the meeting mostly aren’t consciously aware of it, in the way that they’re not using magic keywords like “action item.”
I’m not down on LLMs, per se; it’s just that they’re expert tools for pretending to know things, which they don’t. They’re expert liars. They have some value, and can be useful.
I do have a strong emotional reaction when I hear people say things like, “this AI says I should do X.” My sister is really bad about this, and it’s in part because she is utterly ignorant about how computers work. It sounds like a person, so it must be just like a person.
NO! NO! IT’S ALL LIES! It’s worse than a person, because people can be confidently wrong, but LLMs have no idea. They’re not conscious. They aren’t even trying to trick you, because that would imply they know what the truth is. The fact is that they know nothing.
My wife’s company is using one that listens to meetings and writes up summaries, including calling out action items and bullet points. It’s really quite good, and - importantly - people in the meeting mostly aren’t consciously aware of it, in the way that they’re not using magic keywords like “action item.”
I’m not down on LLMs, per se; it’s just that they’re expert tools for pretending to know things, which they don’t. They’re expert liars. They have some value, and can be useful.
I do have a strong emotional reaction when I hear people say things like, “this AI says I should do X.” My sister is really bad about this, and it’s in part because she is utterly ignorant about how computers work. It sounds like a person, so it must be just like a person.
NO! NO! IT’S ALL LIES! It’s worse than a person, because people can be confidently wrong, but LLMs have no idea. They’re not conscious. They aren’t even trying to trick you, because that would imply they know what the truth is. The fact is that they know nothing.