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Ask an LLM to write an IT security policy for your medium-sized company. Or describe the circumstances of a layoff and ask it to write a press release about it. Tell it about what you want from a holiday and ask where you should go. Ask for the lyrics for a song about Obama's presidency.

All of them are intellectual tasks (most of them quite well paid), but well handled by LLMs. Asking for specific facts, never mind references, isn't something they do well, neither are they really good at niche topics (yet). But still they are pretty good at a lot of things.

I'm not sure it's fair to label LLMs as autocomplete though. The last layer of them gives you weighted candidates for the next token, but that doesn't mean that nothing sophisticated or interesting happened in the other layers.



If you use an LLM to write an email explaining why employees got laid off, you are a piece of shit.




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