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In what domain have LLMs been demonstrated to so-called “think” consistently better than a college- or even high-school-educated adult?
by bagful 2y ago
In what domain have LLMs been demonstrated to so-called “think” consistently better than a college- or even high-school-educated adult?
- barfbagginus 2y agoI have executive dysfunction and get blocked by obsessive worries. Dumping it into an LLM lets me escape the panic and get relaxed and unstuck. It's better at this than any human manager I've ever had. I've got dyslexia and adhd that makes it hard for me to do long form software engineering writing like requirements analysis and test plans. With an LLM I can really quickly sketch the use case, create a reasonable list of requirements, break those into stories, and write implementation stubs and unit test cases. It's like having a really decent project manager on the payroll, when before I couldn't manage the complexity of the writing a good system spec. Obviously in both cases it's me doing the thinking. But again just me, in both cases, would be stuck and completely overwhelmed. This kind of co-regulation is incredibly valuable, even for me as a fairly educated developer. But perhaps you're right. It's not real thinking. I would say that this kind of AI assisted co-regulatory interaction could be called "co-thinking". The idea is that the llm has certain cognitive and material weaknesses that I cover for it, like fact checking, big picture thinking, and true identity/agency. And in at the same time, it's able to cover certain cognitive and communication weaknesses that I have. The result is that I'm much more technically independent than ever before, and can do things in my career that my disabilities prevented before. That matters a lot to me, and is my very personal reason for believing this tech will matter to humanity.