But not at exploring what is at the border of knowledge itself. And by converging on the conventional, LLMs actually lead you away from anything that actually extends.
> doing boring tasks for which you can provide perfect guidance
That's true but you never need an LLM for that. There are wonderful scripts written by wonderful people and provided for free almost all the time and for those who search in the right places. LLM companies benefit/profit of these without providing anything in return.
They are worse than people who grab FOSS and turn it into overpriced and aggressively marketed business models and services or people who threaten and sue FOSS for being better and free alternatives to their bloated and often "illegally telemetric" services.
> able to accelerate you
True, but you leave too much for data brokers and companies like Meta to abuse and exploit in the future. All that additional "interactional data" will do so much worse to humanity than all those previous data sets did in elections, for example, or pretty much all consumer markets. They will mostly accelerate all these dimwitted Fortune 5000 companies that have sabotaged consumers into way too much dumb shit - way more than is reasonable or "ok". And educated, wealthy and or tech-savvy people won't be able to avoid/evade any of that. Especially when it's paired with meds, drugs, foods, biases, fallacies, priming and so on and all the knowledge we will gain on bio-chemical pathways and human liability to sabotage.
They are great for coders, of course, everyone can be an army of clone-warriors with auto-complete on steroids now and nobody can tell you what to do with all that time that you now have and all that money, which, thanks to all of us but mostly our ancestors, is the default. The problem is the resulting hyper-amplified, augmented financial imbalance. It's gonna fuck our species if all the technical people don't restore some of that balance, and everybody knows what that means and what must be done.