alt Hacker NewsI'm not convinced that's where we are heading. LLMs are really good at explaining things ("explain to me like I'm a 5 year old").
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It's enough to make "explanation" a separate "educational" license to make it less broad used. Or disable it in some countries (this is happening already).
There's a big difference between having something explained to you and developing expertise in it.
I don't see an AI-as-explainer future where expertise isn't sacrificed en masse.
Capitalism rarely supports a currently economically unproductive alternative for future good reasons.
The recent AI tech layoffs are a warning sign that corporate leaders will happily shoot their company's (and the future's) expertise to pad next quarter's financials and trust in 90% correct, but much cheaper, AI.
Imagine someone in a position of power mandating that LLMs should not be good teachers.
A post that lives rent-free in my head points out that a kid who is addicted to chatgpt is going to be more literate - and therefore likely better educated - than a kid who is addicted to tiktok