On: AI Predictions for 2025, from Gary Marcus

[fooblaster]

How is the oil and gas industry gaining value from llms?

[dartos → fooblaster]

I’d bet the same way any office worker gains value from LLMs.

Summarizing things they don’t want to read. Generating things they don’t want to write,

And RAG tools for surfacing documents, which imo is the killer app for LLMs.

[mordymoop → dartos]

The RAG application gets the most attention and is probably most widely used, but I use it for everything.

[dartos → mordymoop]

Yeah.

I’m a software engineer, and don’t find much use for LLMs for coding.

But when I worked at a big (4k+ employees) org, the RAG service we used was very helpful.

Everything from surfacing documentation, to announcements on confluence, to spicy internal blog posts were much easier to find.

[Mistletoe → fooblaster]

I was talking to a kid at our NYE party last night and he is using machine learning at his company to determine which natural gas wells will produce the most.

[dartos → Mistletoe]

I think just about everyone company uses machine learning (read: statistical analysis) somewhere tbf.

I think colloquially, when people say AI they mean LLMs.