There are people who can’t properly function without an llm. And it’s not just a few, a good bunch of humans have decided to leave the reasoning skills to a chatbot so they don’t have to do it.
Humans are historically pretty good at offloading mental capacity to some sort of tool in order to tackle larger and more complex problems. Consider solving a math problem mentally. Compare that to the kind of problem you would be able to some with a pen and paper. Then consider what you could do with a pen and paper and a calculator. An LLM purports to be all of that, and more, for any subject. It doesn’t matter that the results are often horrifically wrong, once they’ve offloaded the entirety of their mental capacity to the magic box and refocused their attention somewhere else.
It’s because people get mislead by the “agent”, assuming there’s something actually intelligent at the other end, able to act like they would, just… Automated.
This is because the advertising for LLMs present them as if they were intelligent.
LLMs are being promoted as a tool that can do anything even though the only thing they do well is output text that resembles human patterns. It is a hammer and they are pretending everything is a nail.
There are people who can’t properly function without an llm. And it’s not just a few, a good bunch of humans have decided to leave the reasoning skills to a chatbot so they don’t have to do it.
This is both expected and mystifying at the same time.
How dead in the head do you have to be to RELY on such things?
Humans are historically pretty good at offloading mental capacity to some sort of tool in order to tackle larger and more complex problems. Consider solving a math problem mentally. Compare that to the kind of problem you would be able to some with a pen and paper. Then consider what you could do with a pen and paper and a calculator. An LLM purports to be all of that, and more, for any subject. It doesn’t matter that the results are often horrifically wrong, once they’ve offloaded the entirety of their mental capacity to the magic box and refocused their attention somewhere else.
And I feel sympathy towards all of them, except the ones who appeared on the Jimmy Fallon Show to promote helplessness as a lifestyle.
It’s because people get mislead by the “agent”, assuming there’s something actually intelligent at the other end, able to act like they would, just… Automated.
This is because the advertising for LLMs present them as if they were intelligent.
LLMs are being promoted as a tool that can do anything even though the only thing they do well is output text that resembles human patterns. It is a hammer and they are pretending everything is a nail.
I think it’s worse: it’s laziness. It’s easier to ask a machine so it does the job for you. And since it looks mostly ok, they keep doing it.