[heresalexandria]

The same attitude has been directed at points through history for people "who depend on the internet," "who depend on computers," and "who depend on machines."

I was told growing up "you won't always have a calculator in your pocket" and yet now my phone has an offline LLM on it.

[skydhash]

> I was told growing up "you won't always have a calculator in your pocket" and yet now my phone has an offline LLM on it.

But does your world stop when the phone is out of power? And does every task require a roundtrip to the internet?

[heresalexandria]

Offline models are becoming increasingly more capable - merely a few years ago it would've been unthinkable to run the LLM I have on my phone even on my MacBook Pro.

Are you suggesting that losing electricity in the modern age (entirely absent AI) doesn't upend one's world?

You seem to be saying "we should avoid this thing because we'll become dependent on it," but we're highly dependent on all manners of technology for all sorts of things and would seem to be better for it.

[tines]

And if you can’t see the difference between those things, you’ll probably never know.

[ThrowawayR2]

> "I was told growing up "you won't always have a calculator in your pocket" and yet now my phone has an offline LLM on it."

While I think the person you are responding to has made a low quality comment, I will say that it is very, very revealing that so many AI advocates actually seem proud of their absence of basic math skills.

[heresalexandria]

Never said I was bad at math, but I am aware of the fact that computers can do math better and faster than me - and with our powers combined...

[senordevnyc]

lol, they literally said nothing about their math skills