[phil21]

> As for LLMs... outside of a few precious professions you could live your life and not notice they are there.

And old folks said the same thing about the internet and smart phones. Fads that would pass. While the younger generations lived an entirely different lifestyle.

I’m personally seeing the same. I resisted AI being a “thing” for a long while, but since I’m around a lot of teens and young adults it was a choice of burying my head in the sand or deciding to take a look.

They are going to change society on a scale far beyond smart phones. In ways many will not see as positives, but change never goes the way one may expect.

[ThrowawayR2]

> "And old folks said the same thing about the internet and smart phones."

Ironic how LLM promoters like to hallucinate citations, much like the tools they espouse.

[mh-]

"Internet 'may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it'" - Daily Mail, December 2000

I recall seeing similar sentiment in other publications throughout the late 90s.

https://www.reddit.com/r/retrocomputing/comments/1m6i4ui/art...

(Apologies that this was the best image host I could find for it)

[ThrowawayR2]

Surely you jest. Since people here are fans of LLMs, the Google summary describes said publication as: "The Daily Mail is widely regarded as a sensationalist tabloid with low factual credibility and a strong right-leaning bias."

I was there in the 1990s too and we were deluged with headlines trumpeting how everyone, young and old, was rushing headlong onto the Information Superhighway as the dotcom bubble kept inflating.