There is zero evidence for this.

LLMs make significant mistakes frequently and smart people have no way of judging those mistakes outside their domain expertise. They are also sycophantic and great at being an echo chamber which makes people feel smart even if they are not.

So I think the burden of proof is on you to prove that they somehow amplify intelligence, it seems highly unlikely.

All at the cost of ... {List of negatives regarding the construction and powering of AI data centers }

Most importantly, it makes investors think dumb people are smart.

It helps smart people be barely more effective and helps dumb (more importantly, people who do not value effort, people who are lazy, people who are self absorbed) people shit out endless streams of worthless tokens that can swamp out everything.

Raising the noise floor like this only makes it that much harder to find "Smart" people, which we were already doing terrible at.

I use Claude every single day, but this is such a bad tradeoff. Maybe it will help me standup a quick fix when that is needed. Maybe it can help me dig through documentation to find relevant bits and figure out the unstated assumptions underlying it. Maybe it helps me generate test cases.

Meanwhile, my day to day life is now noise. All social media is noise. All content is noise. Slop pours onto me from all directions. Writing more test cases isn't helping me.

Am I smart? Am I dumb? I don't care, right now I'm deafened