I personally hate LLMs, I think they are a cancer in our society and people don’t understand what they should offload to it. They obviously are going to use it wrong, they are going to lose their hard earned skills and only noticed it way too late and eventually it will be used as a way to create narratives to control the people since they trust it blindly.
That said, if you are using it as a search engine, review and understand what it spews and don’t trust it blindly, it seems to be a pretty sensible way to do some things.
Personally, if I have the choice, I will never use it for the reasons listed above, because they hallucinate too much for being useful to me and because I take pleasure in doing my job the old fashioned way but I can see some things being done faster with them, if combined with this approach.
I don’t do complex math in my head but I do all the “simple math” (money conversions, add, subtract, etc) in my head (unless they are huge numbers). I believe it’s important to keep sovereignty of our mind and not stop thinking and exercising it altogether.
I think less and less people will have these skills and maybe that will make this knowledge more valuable in the future. (reverse engineering, performance gains, etc)
I don’t know if this is accurate. Companies are starting to wake up and see that using LLMs is not as good and productive as they were led to believe. Some were even forced to rehire the people they laid off. Tokens are getting way too expensive. Things are slowly getting derailed.
100% agree with this. Furthermore, if most people become AI dependant and trust everything it says (as I’m seeing happening with young and some older people), you have the perfect tool for mass control, even better than social media…and we can still talk about the impact it has in the environment, which is another matter entirely.
The technology is not at fault here, it never is. The problem always resides with the people and in this case with the values of each society. In a society were empathy is becoming a myth or a sign of weakness and where people only care about themselves, giving them a technology that works for them at a lower cost, will only reveal their true selfs.