LLM applications, in descending order of magic

June 6, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Note: This is not a blog, it's a semi-private digital garden with mostly first drafts that are often co-written with an LLM. Unless I shared this link with you directly, you might be missing important context or reading an outdated perspective.

Current thinking

  1. Help you clarify your own thinking about something “you already know but just needs unlocking”. They ask you questions and prompting you into an adjacent space from where you are
    1. the “blank page problem” is a special case of this
    2. this is why they work so well for therapy
  2. Extract facts from the world you didn’t know and reconcile them your own thinking
    1. In-context summarization and question answering is a special case of this, forcing a little additional emphasis on hard factuality
    2. They remove unnecessary fluff that is forced by the modalities and incentives of where we deliver a message (except maybe textbooks)
  3. Structuring unstructured data
    1. Code generation is a special case of this

Open questions