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by localhoster 24 days ago
I often wonder to myself if we are the teachers protesting against the calculator.

The tool is undoubtedly useful, and it has been said that calculators also removed the need to do manual calculations.

I think the difference between LLMs and calculators is inherently small. Both are algorithms. And algorithms have already were making decisions for us before LLMs, so LLMs are a natural next step of the path we were already in. Deterministic or not, I think that's irrelevant.

So, in a sense outsourcing your learning is just the natural next step. If you look about it this way, you were already doing that. We don't need to learn how to play on tools to listen to music. We don't need to learn how to do complex calculations to do them. It's just not right to look at LLMs as different from other decision making, study decapitating, tech we already have.