Nicholas Carlini joined Bryan and Adam to talk about his terrific blog post on his many pragmatic uses of LLMs to solve real problems. He has great advice about when to use them (often!) and what kinds of problems they handle well. LLMs aren't great at many things, but used well they can be an amazing tool.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special guest, Nicholas Carlini as well as by listeners Mike Cafarella, p5commit, and chrisbur.Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:Nicholas' blog: How I Use "AI"The McLaughlin GroupSurge 2011 ~ Closing Plenary ~ Theo SchlossnagleMicrosoft's Tay chatbotCurb Your Enthusiasm: Larry vs. SiriSal Khan on LLMsGoogle's awful AI adGoogle pulls adIf we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!
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