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Yes, LLMs and their descendants will no doubt leave many human capabilities in the dust eventually. But this was also the case before, the artifacts surpassed our human abilities when defined narrowly. Which has always seemed to irk people who have a need to see humans as superior and unsurpassed in all areas.

For others like me who have an issue with that mindset it's not a problem: dogs have a fantastic sense of smell, and octopuses may well be more intelligent than most us in some aspects. We don't need to be the best at everything to have value in ourselves, as humans.

The main problem we should be focusing on (beyond letting AI fulfilling it's full potential as a useful tool) is how to prevent some future AI to also inherit our selfish conceit which might give it the idea that humans are actually an impediment to its own development.



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