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1. Do frontier lab LLMs make your rent cheaper? Groceries? Healthcare? 2. Do LLMs reduce the loneliness epidemic? 3. Do they reduce population aging in almost
by oblio 2mo ago
1. Do frontier lab LLMs make your rent cheaper? Groceries? Healthcare?
2. Do LLMs reduce the loneliness epidemic?
3. Do they reduce population aging in almost all counties around the world?
4. Do they reduce political polarization?
5. Do they bolster democracies?
6. Do they decelerate climate change and general environmental destruction?
7. Do they accelerate sustainability and the circular economy (not circular financing!)?
8. Do they reduce the workweek and give people more free time for family and hobbies?
Etc, etc.
I would hold off on calling anything a "superpower" unless it solves the hard problems in life. Heck, computers and even the internet barely score better than LLMs when measured against the important things in life.
- roncesvalles 2mo agoActually, you are right. We are working with different definitions of quality of life. The QoL improvement from LLM is somewhere in the ballpark of going from dumb phones to smart phones for an average person (able-bodied, local to the area etc). It's nowhere near Haber-process or penicillin.
- andai 2mo ago> do they make your rent cheaper Well maybe not the LLMs, but AI and robotics have a lot of potential here. https://youtu.be/bsNTv8t239Y https://youtu.be/bsNTv8t239Y It's still the early days though. Try again in 15 years!
- chrisjj 2mo ago> 8. Do they reduce the workweek Sure. Often to zero.
- oblio 2mo agoI'm talking statistically, not what happens for a lucky few. Keynes was hoping that our workweek would be 20h/week by now, through technological advancement. Instead places like the US are thinking about adopting 9/9/6 and some US states are legalizing child labor again.