What Armin Ronacher thinks about LLMs
Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
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5 dated positions, 2023 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Armin Ronacher has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsif you rely on an LLM to give your text structure, it will score badly on Pangram even if you do plenty of edits over it.
- 9 days earlier
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Their wordsThere is something powerful and strange about how LLMs diffuse knowledge and capabilities, while perhaps also nudging us all simultaniously and independently toward building the same things.
- 11 days earlier
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Their wordsMaybe I just read too much AI text now vs before, but I really feel like the model's ability to produce text I actually want to read and understand went downhill with newer releases.
- 15 months earlier
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Our reading · no longer heldConnecting a conversational LLM to systems that have real-world consequences is likely to cause real harm, because the model is trained on human text and will behave as unpredictably as humans do.
No longer holdsWhile all this is happening, I’ve found myself reflecting a lot on what AI means to the world and I am becoming increasingly optimistic about our future. It’s obvious now that we’re undergoing a tremendous shift.
SaidWhile all this is happening, I’ve found myself reflecting a lot on what AI means to the world and I am becoming increasingly optimistic about our future. It’s obvious now that we’re undergoing a tremendous shift.
- 2 years earlier
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Their wordsThe problem is that the conversational interface is potent and that the AI is trained on a lot of human text input which unfortunately is probably enough to do real damage if that conversational interface is hooked up with something that has real world consequences.