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The Claude Delusion

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  1. muglug · · focus · HN ↗
    > Of course, the more you know about a subject, the less convincing the AI's responses are.

    This is said all the time by AI skeptics and I think it's right in some areas and massively wrong in others.

    I know (or at least assume I know) a lot about certain coding domains where frontier models also show convincing ability. And we know that frontier LLMs really do excel in some areas of mathematics (i.e. when an inexpert human was able to prompt the models to derive a closer bound on the Riemann Hypothesis).

    OTOH I know those same models struggle to do things I'm not an expert in (e.g. writing English in a captivating way) because I read their output and have taste.

    1. andsoitis · · focus · HN ↗
      > (e.g. writing English in a captivating way) because I read their output and have taste.

      Concur. In addition to taste, we also have a point of view, a unique voice (nobody loves corporate- or group-speak), and can iterate on our message as we deliver it to an ever wider circle of people.

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