LLMs can’t but humans supplied with data and reasoning from an LLM can make novel jumps without absolute prior knowledge, or at least with reduced need for years of knowledge.

And then such jump can be verified by a machine so human kind of plugs the intelligence gap.

That’s pretty exciting.

I always liked to provocatively call LLM „the new calculator”. Calculator for language.

We are so focused on creating a standalone intelligence that we didn’t notice how we massively augmented our own. That could be considered transhumanism holy grail if only interface brain-LLM was faster.

People need to understand that these things are tools. And every tool needs an operator to function. Tool doesn’t have its own goals, needs, wants or motives. It won’t do anything out of its own, it always exists in context of someone telling it what to do.

In light of that most of the panic and fear mongering is rather ridiculous. Calculator won’t replace you. It wont take over the world. It is just a tool.

You write a book with book generator? Cool, it can be used for this. We will judge output, not the methods. Sometimes we will judge people who have no taste in literature.

Calculator for language, is a nice insight. I visualize generally as LLM's as big mathematical expression that produce next word.

But then , one difference I found on LLM's is on scaling laws, where at some point, it have interesting emerging properties, that nobody thought would be possible now being possible.

Tools: Though It is a tool, but powerfull tool that is automating existing manually done jobs, large scale. Adapting to new roles where we definite goals, needs and motives judging of AI output, at large level is an issue. And humans are used to day to day repeating job, doing same thing repeatedly. Now the AI is taking over that. I see that is a challenge.

Also I see we are moving to creative world, where we will spend more time on creating something really new, leaving mechanized parts to AI.