Technology is part of humanity. Just as a hammer extends the hand, so too does the LLM extend the mind.
but you do manage to drive everywhere - a feat that wasn't possible previously (except perhapes for the select few who trained).
That's a big dependency, reminds me of the people in Wall-E.
And the criteria shouldn't be just the cost of the dependency, but the benefits too! I'd say every dependency we have in the modern life is worth it - otherwise people wouldn't have chosen to have it. Like electricity, mechanised farming, etc.
We often chose short term benfits over long term negative effects.
For instance eating too much sugar, too little sleep, destroying our own habitate by burning fossil fuels etc.
AI needs lots of money and resources ans the use case is more than once for useless stuff.
> I've been thinking about generative AI tools as "bicycles for the mind" (to borrow an old Steve Jobs line), but I think "electric bicycles for the mind" might be more appropriate.
> They can accelerate your natural abilities, you have to learn how to use them, they can give you a significant boost that some people might feel is a bit of a cheat, and they're also quite dangerous if you're not careful with them!
https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/13/ebikes/