On 7/4/26 13:38, [email protected] wrote:
NGBackup is an AI-era, [...]
Pardon me, but ... what does that even *mean*? It sounds on a par with "MongoDB is web scale."¹
The honest truth at the moment is that any time I hear anyone touting "AI" in something, I see it not as a feature claim, but as a product warning. We really shouldn't be calling LLMs "AI". They are NOT intelligent, and we need to work less hard at fooling ourselves that they are.
Once upon a time it was widely said, "Always remember that any computer is just a high-speed idiot." It's true of LLMs as well. They are not engineered to generate correct answers. They are engineered to generate output that *looks plausibly likely* to be correct. It's an important distinction. They are not KNOWLEDGE models. They are LANGUAGE models. We do ourselves no favors when we forget that those are not the same thing.
(Not that I don't agree that LLMs have their valid uses. But we place *far* too much trust and faith in them in far too many tasks they aren't even good at. It's cargo-cultism.)
¹ See also "Eventual consistency is no excuse for throwing away customer data!"
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