When I was young and starting out with computers, programming, BBS’ and later the early internet, technology was something that expanded my mind, helped me to research, learn new skills, and meet people and have interesting conversations. Something decentralized that put power into the hands of the little guy who could start his own business venture with his PC or expand his skillset.
Where we are now with AI, the opposite seems to be happening. We are asking AI to do things for us rather than learning how to do things ourselves. We are losing our research skills. Many people are talking to AI’s about their problems instead of other people. And they will take away our jobs and centralize all power into a handful of billionaire sociopaths with robot armies to carry out whatever nefarious deeds they want to do.
I hope we somehow make it through this part of history with some semblance of freedom and autonomy intact, but I’m having a hard time seeing how.
The LLM is absolutely not doing anything thinking for you. It’s can, at best surface someone else’s thinking based on a prompt.
Anyone that confuses what these things do with thinking is on a path towards psychosis.
Every 4 hours spent talking to one of these things is indistinguishable from talking to oneselves for 40 hours. It amplifies one’s inner thoughts in ways that prevoisly only a schizophrenic was able to enjoy.
It absolutely can replace hours of research or programming or drawing with a quick prompt. It does this for me often, and as of the latest Gemini pretty much is always right too.
None of that is it doing the thinking for you.
LLMs can be used as a research tool but require a human apply critical thinking to the output to be useful.
It definitely replaced a lot of thinking with vibe coding. And research also requires thinking. Maybe not super intense thought, but it’s thought all the same. Artists would also be pretty annoyed to hear that they are doing a brainless activity.
Literally not thinking.
I see you lack critical thinking skills so I understand the confusion. Unfortunately, I can’t fix stupid.
I can see you’re a right cunt who can’t admit he’s wrong. Can’t fix that.
You failed to prove your assertions.
Ask an LLM it will tell you it’s not capable of thinking, it’s approximating thinking.