Torsten Slok, chief economist at Apollo Global Management, recently argued that the stock market currently overvalues a handful of tech giants – including Nvidia and Microsoft –...
  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OPEnglish
    2•7 days ago

    I’ve been using this app to learn Mandarin, and the AI chat bot in it seems to work really well https://www.superchinese.com/

    I can imagine that it might fail at something very nuanced, but at my level it’s really useful because I just need basic practice and being able to have it do casual conversation and check my pronunciation is incredibly helpful.

    I like to call LLMs the whatchamacallit machines, as the handful of times I’ve interacted with it, it worked best in contexts where I needed something I would know when I saw it but couldn’t generate.

    In general, that’s the rule of thumb I have as well with these things. It’s most useful in a context where you understand the subject matter well, and you can make good independent judgments on correctness of the output.

    • MizuTama [he/him, any]English
      1•7 days ago

      I can imagine that it might fail at something very nuanced, but at my level it’s really useful because I just need basic practice and being able to have it do casual conversation and check my pronunciation is incredibly helpful.

      Oh in that case yeah, if you just need the basics tends not to be too bad, I feel once you close in on intermediate it starts to fall off but so do a lot of tools at that point.