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@zogwarg OK, my grammar may have been awkward, but you know what I meant.

Meanwhile, those of us working with AI and providing real value will continue to do so.

I wish people would start focusing on the REAL problems with AI and not keep pretending it’s just a Markov Chain on steroids.

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On a less sneerious note, I would draw distinctions between:

  • Being able to extract value from LLM/GenAI
  • LLM/GenAI being able to sustainably produce value (without simple theft, and without cheaper alternatives being available)

And so far i’ve really not been convinced of the latter.

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Consider traditional databases which let you search for strings. Vector databases let you search the meaning.

For one client, someone could search for “videos about cats”. With stemming and stop words, that becomes “cat” and the results might be lists of videos about house cats and maybe the unix “cat” command. Tigers, lions, cheetahs? Nope.

Vector database will return tigers/lions/cheetahs because it “knows” they are cats. A much smarter search. I’ve built that for a client.

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