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by justonceokay 384 days ago
There’s a little nagging thought in my head when I hear that some people are helped immensely by AI and others are not. It’s that there is a threshold for intelligence that the AI either impresses you or it does not. I’m sure this threshold will continue to rise
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In my experience, people who understand llms better are more impressed. Not impressed like "wow so smart" but impressed like "wow can't believe that just training to predict the next token actually works so amazingly well"
It feels like the level of skill needed to remain above GenAI's ability to code, write, produce songs, or drawings keeps rising. All of us have strengths, things we do better than AI still (even basic companionship abilities), but I wonder how long that will be true.
If you have imagination, you will always be above this line.
I see that same threshold, but rather than intelligence, it is imagination, and the people below the threshold are unable to find ways to make AI useful to themselves. I think this threshold lowering is in agreement with your threshold rising: People will become more savvy.