Meng Li on Substack

I can see a time once the hype has settled down, and we all see whether AI is truly capable at a practical, day-to-day level, where we realize that the control still remains with the humans. Just because everyone has a camera on their phone, doesn’t mean everyone takes great photos. That still requires skill, experience and above all, taste.

In this analogy, LLMs become better than humans at writing. But it’s still widely understood that learning to write is good for you (maybe writing is “the best way to think”) so people send their kids to writing camp and humble-brag about writing in their free time. But in the end, most writing was done for the mundane purpose of  making text

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