

It bums me out that the corporate misdeeds were so damaging with LLM’s that people say stuff like this. The technology of using backpropagation to tune networks and using high dimensional matrices to predict new vectors itself isn’t toxic. It is fascinating and can be useful. But without focus I can see how it all looks like just ChatGPT hallucinating wrong answers to lazy college students or what have you. That’s painting with pretty broad strokes though.



Depends what your real tasks are. If they involve writing, researching, watching videos, filling out web exams, etc., yeah, very capable. If you’re compiling massive codebases, editing composited video, or recording several audio channels, obviously not. But that’s the pitch. If you’re a student and want a well built machine at a competitive price with a long battery life, they’re tough to beat.