Reposted by Valentin Klotzbücher
At least for academics, we often have a good comparison point, which is human Research Assistants, whose failure rates are… not always zero.
An LLM doesn’t have to be perfect to be useful to provide comparable work. Freeing up RAs to more interesting things than mini lit reviews or hand coding data
![Comic. [block quote] “Far better an approximate answer to the *right* question, which is often vague, than an *exact* answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.” -John W. Tukey, The Future of Data Analysis (1962) [caption] Happy Approximate Birthday to John Tukey, author of my favorite statistics quote, who was born 110.000 years ago sometime this week.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreid4vie3df7ltmh7capumhhqcpbejyr7ya7y762fasdeq46ud3gyva)
