Topsy-Turvy
Recent events gave demonstrated how inappropriate a Large Language Model (LLM) is for providing intelligence on a rapidly evolving position. The USA is rapidly changing its positions on Ukraine and Israel/Palestine with Europe scampering to keep up or try to slow down the rate of change. Without commenting on the new positions being taken, it should be obvious how inappropriate an LLM approach is for dynamic situations. Looking on the internet for the most popular meaning is not appropriate, when radical change can occur within an hour. The only approach that has a prayer of keeping up is a semantic one, and even with this, words are being redefined as you read this. LLMs offer no int3elligence to the understanding of text –instead they work as a useful electronic index to text that changes slowly with time. Search engines used to look up key words as separate words, until someone realised that searching for “dog” and “park” separately was silly. and searching for “dog park” – a ...
