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I see Google’s deal with Reddit is going just great…

  • Aux@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    People need to realise what LLMs actually are. This is not AI, this is a user interface to a database. Instead of writing SQL queries and then parsing object output, you ask questions in your native language, they get converted into queries and then results from the database are converted back into human speech. That’s it, there’s no AI, there’s no magic.

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      6 months ago

      Sure, if by “database” you mean “tool that takes every cell in every table, calculates their likelihood of those cells appearing near each other, and then discards the data”. Which is a definition of “database” that stretches the word beyond meaning.

      Natural language inputs for data retrieval have existed for a very long time. They used to involve retrieving actual data, though.