LLMs are an OS, or weird computers

Phillip Carter on LLMs Are Weird Computers

If traditional computers are precision machines that struggle with fuzziness, LLMs are the inverse: fuzzy machines that struggle with precision (unless calling out to a traditional computer to do a precision task).

I’ve been thinking about this since I stumbled on it, and I think it’s a very astute observation about the nature of LLMs. And it’s early days, we’re just getting started figuring out how to use them effectively.