LLMs are just continuing the trend humanity has long been traveling down.
This is a funny twist on the glorification of the past.
Modern humans have been getting smarter even over the relatively short time periods that we’ve been measuring.
It’s called the Flynn effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
Modern day humans still can and do survive in the wild if they so desire. It’s not some lost intelligence that was only achievable by past ancient humans.
Flynn effect research says otherwise.
If you think prehistoric humans were geniuses because They could survive in the wild, by that measure monkeys and gorillas must be geniuses too.
Flynn effect is just a trend for the past century or so and it's an international measure. For the past decade there's been a trend for the US exclusively that is not aligned with the flynn effect.
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2023/03/americans-iq-s...
You're using broadly shared but totally unsubstantiated about past humans just to argue that things are good right now.
In stone age, you had to focus on other things than thinking to have enough food for the next day. And to survive otherwise.