Comment by alex_sf
19 hours ago
I don't understand how to make a modern CPU. I'm not involved in the manufacturing of it. From my perspective, there may as well not be any human involvement. I can still use the resulting chip (in an larger system of other things I can't make and wasn't involved in) to argue with you on the internet.
It becomes another abstraction, really. As long as we can use it for something useful, it's still valuable.
At some level of abstraction it's all built around allowing you to do some work/play/etc that you understand. Some of that work allows you to make money and eat food.
If the LLM is operating at such a high level that it never actually constructs a useful product for humans to use, then how will that be good for humanity?
> If the LLM is operating at such a high level that it never actually constructs a useful product for humans to use, then how will that be good for humanity?
If you replace "LLM" with "mathematician" than this is the state of the world today. Stuff like Galois theory is beautiful mathematically, but what has it constructed or enabled for you and me?
There is a difference between manufacturing and design. Yes manufacturing is largely done by machines because of the nature involved but to look at a cpu and think 'no human was involved in creating this', you're wrong and also insulting to the humans who actually worked on things that led to the cpu and the manufacturing process.
A cpu (the physical thing that sits in your mother) is not an abstraction, what are you talking about