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egeozcantoday at 10:04 AM1 replyview on HN

Is there anything that LLMs (or any software for that matter) could imaginably and theoretically do but do humans qualitatively cannot do?

I don't really know what I'm talking about but I imagined the difference was always quantitative (in a nutshell: they need less time).


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Clositoday at 10:31 AM

Or almost any invention for that matter.

Washing machines can’t do anything humans do, they just remove labour. Trucks don’t do anything longboats can’t, it just need less labour and time/effort to build roads rather than canals. Computers can’t calculate anything humans can’t dry run by hand etc.

Everything in reality is about reducing time/effort/material/cost or achieving more with less resource.

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