I don’t disagree much with the paper’s premise, except that I am turned off whenever there is a handy new tool for us to use and then some people come up with reasons why using the new tool is a harmful thing to do.
We humans evolved to be very flexible and naturally use what is in front of us to solve whatever problems we need to solve. For some tasks LLMs are very useful and for other tasks they don’t offer much help. I feel sorry for people who don’t learn how to use common tools because they are stuck in place or have unreasonable fears.
It is reasonable to worry about how powerful actors might use AI for surveillance and removing privacy rights, but I strongly disagree that it is a bad thing for individuals to sometimes save time and sometimes get better results by manually using tools like Perplexity and ChatGPT, and automating things using LLMs as sources of general common sense knowledge, as language processors, data transformation, etc.
We humans evolved to be very flexible and naturally use what is in front of us to solve whatever problems we need to solve. For some tasks LLMs are very useful and for other tasks they don’t offer much help. I feel sorry for people who don’t learn how to use common tools because they are stuck in place or have unreasonable fears.
It is reasonable to worry about how powerful actors might use AI for surveillance and removing privacy rights, but I strongly disagree that it is a bad thing for individuals to sometimes save time and sometimes get better results by manually using tools like Perplexity and ChatGPT, and automating things using LLMs as sources of general common sense knowledge, as language processors, data transformation, etc.