People bad at math use calculators. People with bad handwriting prefer to type. Weak people use levers. Slow people rely more on wheels. Its like were a bunch of tool using primates or something.
In all of those examples, the user knows exactly what they want and the tool is a way to expedite or enable getting there. This isn’t quite the same thing.
If we were talking a tool like augmented audio to text I’d agree. I’d probably even agree if it was an AI-proofreader style model where you feed it what you have to make sure it’s generally comprehensible.
Writing as a skill is about solidifying and conveying thoughts so they can be understood. The fact that it turns into text is kind of irrelevant. Hand waving that process is just rubber stamping something you kinda-sorta started the process of maybe thinking about.
I’m not really sure what you mean. They are not perfect, and in fact it will usually reduce the quality of output for a skilled writer, but half of the adults in the US cant read and write at a sixth grade level, and LLMs are greatly improving their ability to solidify and convey their thoughts in a more understandable way.
Because they’re not actually using the AI that way, to support them in their writing endeavors, they’re just having the AI do the writing task for them.
A calculated doesn’t do the understanding for you it just does the calculation. You still need to understand what it is you’re asking the calculator to do. If you want to calculate compound interest you still need to understand the concepts behind compound interest, in order to be able to put the right calculations into the calculator.
Bad at counting is not the same as bad at math. People bad at math I’d rather have use their hands to count.
People with bad handwriting are usually even more challenged to type with bullshit modern keyboards. I’m one such (I like my handwriting when I have time and mood, but that’s not the usual situation).
OK, I get your point, just these analogies I gave are good for LLMs. I’ve yet to meet a person who’d really use them with good results. Except for me using porn chatbots.
People bad at math use calculators. People with bad handwriting prefer to type. Weak people use levers. Slow people rely more on wheels. Its like were a bunch of tool using primates or something.
In all of those examples, the user knows exactly what they want and the tool is a way to expedite or enable getting there. This isn’t quite the same thing.
If we were talking a tool like augmented audio to text I’d agree. I’d probably even agree if it was an AI-proofreader style model where you feed it what you have to make sure it’s generally comprehensible.
Writing as a skill is about solidifying and conveying thoughts so they can be understood. The fact that it turns into text is kind of irrelevant. Hand waving that process is just rubber stamping something you kinda-sorta started the process of maybe thinking about.
I’m not really sure what you mean. They are not perfect, and in fact it will usually reduce the quality of output for a skilled writer, but half of the adults in the US cant read and write at a sixth grade level, and LLMs are greatly improving their ability to solidify and convey their thoughts in a more understandable way.
Because they’re not actually using the AI that way, to support them in their writing endeavors, they’re just having the AI do the writing task for them.
A calculated doesn’t do the understanding for you it just does the calculation. You still need to understand what it is you’re asking the calculator to do. If you want to calculate compound interest you still need to understand the concepts behind compound interest, in order to be able to put the right calculations into the calculator.
Bad at counting is not the same as bad at math. People bad at math I’d rather have use their hands to count.
People with bad handwriting are usually even more challenged to type with bullshit modern keyboards. I’m one such (I like my handwriting when I have time and mood, but that’s not the usual situation).
OK, I get your point, just these analogies I gave are good for LLMs. I’ve yet to meet a person who’d really use them with good results. Except for me using porn chatbots.