LLM’s owned by billionaires dis-empower both workers and small businesses, and you really should avoid using those, even if it’s free.
Local LLMs that run completely on your own computer empower individuals. Yes, they don’t think for you and some (very dumb) people seem to struggle with that. But for people who can be bothered to put the intellectual work in, they give you the ability to do more. “What algorithms can I use to solve this niche problem” is not the sort of question stack overflow was ever great at, and good luck finding the right book – but the AI will give you options that you couldn’t have came up with that you can think about and decide on for yourself. Yes, those options are ‘stolen’ from other people, but if those people would begrudge you making your life better they’re not worth considering anyway. It’s useful in other areas too – yes even art – if you don’t accept the first garbage it spits out and are willing to work and modify and build on or away from it to make it more what you want. (Again stolen style from artists, but inspired by artist’s style has been a thing forever.) We should be using tools to empower people, and make the world a better place for people. AI can help with that.
Rather than trying to kill AI in general, we should be ruthlessly mocking AI companies and business people for thinking AI will ever be used remotely. Why would anyone be dumb enough to build any meaningful part of their business on a remote service subscription?
LLM’s owned by billionaires dis-empower both workers and small businesses, and you really should avoid using those, even if it’s free.
Local LLMs that run completely on your own computer empower individuals. Yes, they don’t think for you and some (very dumb) people seem to struggle with that. But for people who can be bothered to put the intellectual work in, they give you the ability to do more. “What algorithms can I use to solve this niche problem” is not the sort of question stack overflow was ever great at, and good luck finding the right book – but the AI will give you options that you couldn’t have came up with that you can think about and decide on for yourself. Yes, those options are ‘stolen’ from other people, but if those people would begrudge you making your life better they’re not worth considering anyway. It’s useful in other areas too – yes even art – if you don’t accept the first garbage it spits out and are willing to work and modify and build on or away from it to make it more what you want. (Again stolen style from artists, but inspired by artist’s style has been a thing forever.) We should be using tools to empower people, and make the world a better place for people. AI can help with that.
Rather than trying to kill AI in general, we should be ruthlessly mocking AI companies and business people for thinking AI will ever be used remotely. Why would anyone be dumb enough to build any meaningful part of their business on a remote service subscription?