When you highlight only the negatives, yeah it does sound like no one should hire that intern. But what if the same intern happens to have an encyclopedia for a brain and can pour through massive documents and codebases to spot and fix countless human errors in a snap?
There seems to be two camps: People who want nothing to do with such flawed interns - and people who are trying to figure out how to amplify and utilize the positive aspects of such flawed, yet powerful interns. I'm choosing to be in the latter camp.
Those are fair points, I didn't mean to imply that there are only negatives, and I don't consider myself to be in the former camp you describe as wanting nothing to do with these "interns". I shouldn't have stuck with the intern analogy at all since it's difficult for me to compare the two, with one being fairly autonomous and the other being totally reliant on a prompter.
The only point I wanted to make was that an LLM's ability and propensity to generate plausible falsehoods should, in my opinion, elicit a much deeper sense of distrust than one feels for an intern, enough so that comparing the two feels a little dangerous. I don't trust an intern to be right about everything, but I trust them to be self aware, and I don't feel like I have to take a magnifying glass to every tidbit of information they provide.
There seems to be two camps: People who want nothing to do with such flawed interns - and people who are trying to figure out how to amplify and utilize the positive aspects of such flawed, yet powerful interns. I'm choosing to be in the latter camp.