Comment by darkwater
7 months ago
Love this study because it reinforces my own biases but also love that a study was done to actually check it.
With that said, would be a study that finds out that people using motorcycles or cars to move around exclusively gets their leg and body atrophied in comparison to people who walk all the day to do their things. Totally. It's just plain obvious. The gist is in the trade-offs: can I do more things or things I wasn't able to do before commuting by car? Sure. Am I going to be exposed to health issues if I never walk day in, day out? Most probably.
The exact same thing will happen with LLM, we are in the hype phase and any criticism is downplayed with "you are being left behind if you don't drink rocket fuel like we do" but in 10-15 years we will be complaining as a society that LLMs dumbed down our kids.
The motorcycle/car metaphor here is really interesting. We really don't know yet, but it could indeed be that lack of access to AI would be similar to how teenagers growing up in a small town without good public transport or access to a car or motorcycle would have a different adolescence experience from those growing up with a convenient mode of travel. You can argue that either experience is "better" but they are inarguably different.