> For industrial control, developing high-performance controllers with few samples and low technical debt is appealing.<p>They then proceed to develop a nine-stage pipeline of three interacting processes relying on a separate database in order to perform prompt generation.<p>As an aside while I remember its genesis I now have no idea what technical debt means in popular use. These authors use it to mean investment of effort.
Deterministic controls have had a lot of staying power for reasons that are pretty obvious. I don’t see what benefit we gain by leaving human comfort up to a LLM when a thermostat works just fine.<p>Just an aside, but I think venture capital will fall out of love with AI when LLMs start making decisions for customers and we are forced to have human support staff clean up the messes it leaves behind.
This is really funny - it's bordering on truly absurd, almost incomprehensible madness to consider doing this seriously. I can't think of a single property you'd desire in a control system (state observability, auditability, guarantees on out-of-band input behaviour, stability under shocks, etc, etc) that would be present in an LLM control model.<p>I don't want to be disrespectful to the authors, and it's (vaguely) interesting to see how far they've been able to go with this, but this idea is still an abomination.
me: smarthome, please turn on the lights.<p>smarthome: you're late.<p>me: smarthome, sorry, please turn on the lights.<p>smarthome: why don't you sit in the dark for a while and think about being late.
It should be reminded that for decades, interested in the study of non-strictly-quantitative control of systems for engineering <i>advances</i>, the Japanese have pioneered Fuzzy Logic.<p>The comparison seems strongly telling. One strong point could be that Fuzzy Logic remains a <i>logic</i>.
Am I paranoid or is this a clear evidence that we cannot control nor contain AI as people will try to misuse it as much as possible for convenience and profit?
Why on gods green earth would I need to use GPT for my HVAC.<p>Already I can clock a button and set it to what temperature I want and it maintains that.<p>If I were someone whom got excited at the prospect of my AC being part of a botnet I could even connect it to the wifi and control it from an app on my phone or through a home assistant.<p>Who wants this? Why is this a thing? Good God you spent so much time wondering if you could you didn't stop to think if you should.<p>Edit: God this is even worse than I thought "For industrial control, developing high-performance controllers with few samples and low technical debt is appealing." I think that using GPT to run our industrial control systems is like asking dolphins to be in charge of our nuclear reactors. Whoever proposed this should never be allowed to make decisions regarding technology ever.