Thinking in the age of LLMs
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Thinking in the age of LLMs

Extending our thinking abilities or crippling it.

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Are our brains f*cked?

I was a mechanical engineering student and do not get me wrong I loved it (well parts of it). I shared my hostel room with 5 other people, none of them were studying mechanical engineering for undergrads. I have been writing code for more than 6-7 years now.

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  1. Minor inncovenience/Shopping decisions,emotional help etc we run to chatGPT and LLMs to ask for a solution and how it is different from Google search where the information was presented but the answer was always ours to find. ChatGPT gives us answer.
  1. Picture of the future where humans have crippled their thinking
  1. Showing a ray of hope.

Probably find a call back to the first para somehow would be interesting.

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