• AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    We don’t NEED any particular technology to exist. That’s a weird distinction to make.

    inspiration? They are more of an inspiration killer imo.

    Different minds work differently.

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      2 days ago

      No, mankind certainly needs a lot of techonologies (maybe just out of built dependency) either to mantain our living standards or just plainly to ensure that we produce and distribute enough resources for everyone to survive.

      We need LLMs as much as we needed 3D movies or augmented reality.

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        1 day ago

        Take any of those technologies that we depend on today, and go back to the decade they were invented. Practically none of them would have been considered ‘needed’ either. It takes time for technology to mature and be adopted. I’ll grant that the crazy pro-AI shills aren’t helping things any