alt Hacker News> It seems quite premature to say that. We're 3 to 4 years into the LLM revolution and the rate of progress is still impressive.
When we were 3 to 4 years into mobile phone revolution it was already abundantly clear that it's changing the way people leave.
Ditto when mobile phones became smartphones, and for many other tech items we got in the past decades.
As for LLMs... outside of a few precious professions you could live your life and not notice they are there.
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Everyone uses chatgpt instead of Google now, but at least half of that is on Google.
> As for LLMs... outside of a few precious professions you could live your life and not notice they are there.
And old folks said the same thing about the internet and smart phones. Fads that would pass. While the younger generations lived an entirely different lifestyle.
I’m personally seeing the same. I resisted AI being a “thing” for a long while, but since I’m around a lot of teens and young adults it was a choice of burying my head in the sand or deciding to take a look.
They are going to change society on a scale far beyond smart phones. In ways many will not see as positives, but change never goes the way one may expect.
This isn't accurate. The first mobile phone came out in 1983. It took at least a decade before they started to become common.