This is called auto-domestication. And we as a species have done it before. Most dramatically with fire, we are evolved to eat cooked food now and can't easily go back
Many inventions end up domesticating us to some degree. And there are pros and cons for introducing them widely and forgetting the old ways
But AI is different. This is the first auto-domestication on a tool *you don't and CAN NOT own*. This creates a mortal dependence on proprietary control and we should reject it
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz/117259349418891202
In the early 1970s, most folks could do some mental arithmetic. They had to. The arrival of pocket calculators quickly reduced most people's ability to do "math" in their heads.
Ditto with Google Maps: people can't navigate without it. A recent study of Polish radiologists using LLMs to assist showed a measurable drop in the doctor's own ability to diagnose without them
LLMs will have that effect on programmers' ability to code.
More broadly: for people to be able to think for themselves.