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> misses the reason why the plow took off The first two paragraphs explain why, and you didn't contradict them in any way - just repeated their points in sligh
by mandmandam 2y ago
> misses the reason why the plow took off
The first two paragraphs explain why, and you didn't contradict them in any way - just repeated their points in slightly worse wording.
> AI does not mechanize human thought
It does though. Not all of it (and that's not what was claimed) but that's precisely what it does.
If I need to find an error in a large spreadsheet, I can either think about it for an hour, or upload it an LLM and have an answer in seconds. My thought has been mechanized - and at an unimaginable scale, across human civilization.
> It is not the plow, because the plow was actually competitive and forced people to change their lives
How many people are being fired right now, because their workmates who understand how to use ChatGPT are outperforming them? Do you think NVIDIA stock has gone gangbusters because they're "not actually competitive"?
> the smartest people today are probably the ones that least regard AI and LLMs.
That's not remotely true. There are no shortage of highly intelligent people across all fields who are actively making use of LLMs, and fascinated as to where they're going next, and a little scared at the crazy potentials.
ChatGPT is performing at a roughly 120 IQ, acing exams, helping people at a college research assistant level - and there's no reason to believe it won't be far above that level next year. Or next month!
Ignoring this is - funnily enough - exactly like hearing a 4000 BC Mesopotamian farmer refuse to use a plow, saying "it's not like it's fire or anything".