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> This moment threatens to convince too many of us that our lived experiences do not matter.

Does anyone really take AI that seriously? I only hear that from reddit and blogs.

> I've heard it said that scientific discovery would happen regardless of who does it

In this regard, science isn't that different from art. You heard wrong. Scientific discovery is not as trivial as replication, proof, etc. Discovery is what art and science have in common. It's extremely difficult to find something new to explore and highly dependent on the scientist's experience and perspective.

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> Does anyone really take AI that seriously?

Surely you have heard the stories of people using LLMs as girlfriends, therapists and drug trip guides right? Sometimes with fatal results?

Yes, people are taking LLMs very seriously.

>> This moment threatens to convince too many of us that our lived experiences do not matter.

> Does anyone really take AI that seriously?

Young people are having a very hard time developing a feeling of competence because LLMs produce better work than beginners in many fields.

Without experience as a beginner, it is hard to progress to a level where you don’t believe in the magic anymore.

I don't understand what magic was there to begin with, and I'm not even that old.

I built my career searching on google. I just don't get what the practical difference is. I know there are always better answers, but I'm the one making the decisions and getting paid. Nobody is seriously deferring work to an LLM unless they're that desperate (different problem). Someone less knowledgeable than me would make just as much of a mess as any old copypasta job.

Where's the threat? I don't crack open a book and say "oh it's all over they'll just hire the million other guys like this instead of me". I learn and move on.

>Nobody is seriously deferring work to an LLM unless they're that desperate (different problem)

Yes they are. Read some of the comments on this website and you'll hear that many people no longer write or read their own fucking code.

I'm not disagreeing. Many people didn't read or write their own code a decade ago either! hah

LLMs are the ultimate content scraper. That may have a chilling effect, but it's not a new effect. Where/why do people think LLMs were being used before the ChatGPT and later hype?

llms don’t produce anything on their own.

the sibling reply puts it very well how it doesn’t really make sense to gg mankind because a computer can endlessly answer questions and code. it is truly amazing! technology has been mind blowing for centuries now.

people still need to put in the work to master the tools.

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