Scott Jenson suggests AI is likely to be more useful for “boring” tasks than for fancy outboard brains that can do our thinking for us. With hallucination and faulty reasoning derailing high-order tasks, Scott argues its time to right-size the task—and maybe the models, too. “Small language models” (SLMs) are plenty to take on helpful but modest tasks around syntax and language. These smaller open-source models, while very good, usually don’t score as well as the big foundational ...
