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Ask HN: Are LLMs just expensive search and scripting tools? Is it that simple?

3•edwin2•48m ago
Can all of LLMs be summarized as a (currently) really expensive search that allows you to express nuanced queries and script the output of the search? Why or why not?

Take code. In a sense, StackOverflow is about finding a code snippet for an already solved problem. Auto complete does the same kind of search in a sense.

Take generative text. In a sense that’s the equivalent of making a query and then aggregating the many results into one phrase. You could imagine the bot searching 1,000 websites and then taking the average of the answers to the query and then outputting the result.

Does every LLM use case fit the following pattern?…

query —-> LLM does its work —-> result —> script of result (optional)

Comments

minimaxir•29m ago
You're being reductive to the point that you're saying "LLMs are an algorithm like auto complete/search engine, therefore they're the same."

That's not how it works. They're different approaches to how they handle the same inputs.

edwin2•24m ago
i would totally agree that they’re different approaches

i wouldn’t conclude “therefore they’re the same”. they’re clearly not the same

if it’s a different approach to search and scripting, does that not mean it is a kind of search and scripting?

adocomplete•2m ago
It's even simpler. It's just 1's and 0's.

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