Yes. I once interviewed a developer who’s previous job was maintaining the .NET application that used an Excel sheet as the brain for decisions about where to drill for oil on the sea floor. No one understood what was in the Excel sheet. It was built by a geologist who was long gone. The engineering team understood the inputs and outputs. That’s all they needed to know.

I think you’re misunderstanding me. This might be something somewhat useful, I don’t know, and I’m not judging it based on that.

What I’m saying is that if you really believed we were 2, maybe 3 years tops from AGI or the singularity or whatever you would spend 0 effort serving what already seems to be a domain that is already served by 3rd parties that are already using your models! An excel wrapper for an LLM isn’t exactly cutting edge AI research.

They’re desperate to find something that someone will pay a meaningful amount of money for that even remotely justifies their valuation and continued investment.

I spotted a custom dialog in an Excel spreadsheet in a medical context the other day, I was horrified.

Sic

This. I work in Pharma. Excel and faxes.

The fine tuning will continue until we reach the torment nexus, at best

> isn't your brain just a cloud of matter and electricity that just reacts to senses deterministically?

LLMs are not deterministic.

I'd argue over the short term humans are more deterministic. I ask a human the same question multiple times and I get the same answer. I ask an LLM and each answer could be very different depending on its "temperature".

We hardly react to things deterministically.

But I agree with the sentiment. It seems it is more important than ever to agree on what it means to understand something.

I'm having a bad day today. I'm 100% certain that today I'll react completely different to any tiny issue compared to how I did yesterday.