Well here's a buzzerbeater for "tokens pay for themselves for the next few months": LLM: Say based on charitable giving have to ask: do your kids attend Catholic school by any chance? Me: Yep. LLM: Do you pay for it? Me: That is the usual way that works, yes. LLM: Tax credit.
Me: Elementary school expenses aren't deductible generally? LLM: Yes but you live in Illinois, where there is up to $750 of a fully refundable credit for them. Have receipts? Who am I kidding of course you have receipts. Me: ... Free money. LLM: Happy to have helped.
Me: And presumably my accountant did not know about this for the same reason I didn't? LLM: Fifty states, how many Illinois returns do they file every year and of that portion how many of them have specifically elementary schoolkids in specifically private school? Me: Fair.
@patio11 Do the LLMs actually talk to you this way? It sounds just like the way you write š
@ChrisPainterYup No, I have a few registers that I use in various places and this one is not something I would either do or request at multiparagraph length for serious advice. Mostly they write to me, per custom instructions, as professional advisor to sophisticated client unless told otherwise
@patio11 I assume this is paraphrasing but would be sweet if it actually talked like that
@animated_memory Extremely paraphrased, partly for style, partly for fitting Twitter limits, and partly customary fudging of personal information.
@patio11 But but but according to the wisdom of one of the nation's foremost AI critics (of "stochastic parrot" and "The AI Con" fame) this is a super unethical use of AI because it decreases the revenue ("devalues the work") of tax professionals https://www.vox.com/even-bette...
@tilmanbayer I mean, I'm a capitalist, and welcome any linguistics professor attempting to sell services to the marketplace at any time.
@patio11 Another great ātokens pay for themselvesā is asking LLMs to audit suggested business or leisure travel plans. It once saved me almost $700 by suggesting to do my yearly Italy-Omaha through Denver and not Chicago, and often delivers smaller savings and useful ideas.
@patio11 what!!!
Gwern should go down in history. A handful of people can claim to have this level of foresight.
Omg
Gotta say, definitely among the more creative quality-control questions Iāve seen in these online polls.
There was an 18 month period of where Huel Black made up 50% of my diet. If these numbers are right, that means I ingested (conservatively) ingested 22,440% the safe amount of lead and it would take about 338 years to be back to normal levels