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I don't know about Copilot itself but I agree in general large language models will also bring a huge change like computers, internet or smartphones did. Large language models are still in their infancy as they get better and more people learn how to use them. They will bring a huge change to how computers/smartphones are used by the majority of the people not just the tech inclined. People that mostly use their computers/smartphones just tiktok Facebook and YouTube etc will use it for a lot more as the interface for computing for will change dramatically.

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>Large language models are still in their infancy

We have been hearing the same about anything AI related for decades already.

That doesn't mean they're not in their infancy. I take infancy to mean they have not achieved their potential // can be vastly improved or made powerful, as opposed to taking infancy to literally mean 'young' (as in, a period of time).

I think it will make us dumb and we're slowly becoming the dystopian world from Idiocracy.

I disagree with you as today the sum of all human knowledge is too vast for a group of people to know let alone 1 person. The models as they get better will bring access and result in expanding of human knowledge rather than hampering it. The current models are not very close but I do feel we are moving in that direction

It'll probably be as bad as Google, Stack Overflow, or every other thing that people's have complained about making us dumb. Even books and the printing press went through this phase where everyone was worried that the next generation of scholars wouldn't be able to memorize books.

The problem I see is that no one controls the language model in a transparent way. It's not an open database like Stack Overflow, Reddit or other websites that you use when searching for a programming solution, for example.

It has no way of telling what's wrong and what's right. We've seen how AI and bots behave when their training is completely automated. Did everyone forget the bot Microsoft made that became racist after some interactions on Twitter?

And can they?

I think biggest change will be how people make stuff so it will impact more in work than in personal space. Think something like if smartphone is car, LLM is more like truck.

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