Cars produce toxic fumes, air pollution, noise pollution with their engine noises and horns, light pollution with their headlights pointed directly into my fucking eye, consume incredible amounts of resources to function, consume a fuckton of resources for road maintainability waste millions of man-hours in soul-crushing traffic jams, all that for them to be slower than me on my fucking bike inside the city.
Yeah the horse and buggy manufacturers were right, cars were a mistake. We just doubled down on that mistake.
When it comes to personal transport the current best invention is the safety bicycle. It's truly a marvel and can never be celebrated enough. A tubular frame, ball bearings, cable actuated brakes and gears, spoke tensioned wheels and pneumatic tyres provide a stiff yet lightweight machine that needs very little maintenance and no more energy than walking.
But unfortunately the car used all of that technology in a hilariously inefficient way, and unbridled use of fossil fuels meant it was attractive to use a vehicle that needs a million joules just to make it move without anything in it. If we weren't so greedy but instead considered each gain carefully we might have never ended up with cars.
But, alas, we're no better than a dog who got access to the food cupboard and made itself sick
LLMs piece together language based on other language they've seen. It's not intelligent, it's just a language tool. Currently we have no idea what will happen once there are no more human inputs to train the LLMs. We might end up wishing we didn't build our whole lives around LLMs.