Yeah agree 100%. LLMs are overrated. I describe them as the “Jack of all, master of none” of AI. LLMs are that jackass guy we all know who has to chime in to every topic like he knows everything, but in reality he’s a fraud with low self-esteem.
I’ve known a guy since college who now has a PhD in something niche, supposedly pulls a $200k/yr salary. One of our first conversations (in college, circa 2014) was how he had this clever and easy way to mint money- by selling Minecraft servers installed on Raspberry Pis. Some of you will recognize how asinine this idea was and is. For everyone else- back then, Minecraft only ran on x86 CPUs (and I doubt a Pi would make a good Minecraft server today, even if it were economical). He had no idea what he was talking about, he was just spewing shit like he was God’s gift. Actually, the problem wasn’t that he had no idea- it was that he knew a tiny bit- enough to sound smart to an idiot (remind you of anyone?).
That’s an LLM. A jackass with access to Google.
I’ve had great success with SLMs (small language models), and what’s more I don’t need a rack of NVIDIA L40 GPUs to train and use them.
I’ve known a guy since college who now has a PhD in something niche, supposedly pulls a $200k/yr salary. One of our first conversations (in college, circa 2014) was how he had this clever and easy way to mint money- by selling Minecraft servers installed on Raspberry Pis. Some of you will recognize how asinine this idea was and is. For everyone else- back then, Minecraft only ran on x86 CPUs (and I doubt a Pi would make a good Minecraft server today, even if it were economical). He had no idea what he was talking about, he was just spewing shit like he was God’s gift. Actually, the problem wasn’t that he had no idea- it was that he knew a tiny bit- enough to sound smart to an idiot (remind you of anyone?).
That’s an LLM. A jackass with access to Google.
I’ve had great success with SLMs (small language models), and what’s more I don’t need a rack of NVIDIA L40 GPUs to train and use them.