It's up to us I think. We can use LLMs to generate web pages in candy crash style and end up dumper by outsourcing thinking to the machines or we can use it to expand our cognitive capabilities.
replyWhat makes me more of an optimist in this case is that people who today decide to go into these sciences are mostly people who are driven by intellectual activity so I feel they are the right ones to figure this out, probably more so than us the engineers.
Unfortunately, LLMs might lead to the demise of the primary institution that allows for people that are in it for the love of intellectual activity to do that activity, namely research universities. Certainly the people proposing the tech are quite opposed to the modern university.
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