Philip Carter has started calling LLMs “weird” or “inverted” computers because of how differently they behaive compared to the things we’ve been calling computers for almost a hundred years.

We've spent decades working with computers that are incredible at precision tasks but need to be painstakingly programmed for anything remotely fuzzy. Now we have computers that are adept at fuzzy tasks but need special handling for precision work. I genuinely do not know what to make of this yet!

They are different beasts, to be sure. Which is why I’ve been spending so much time lately really getting my head around how to use them.