Isn't this more an indictment of current teaching and testing methods than a praise of LLMs?
Like the old "you can't use a calculator on a test because you won't always have a calculator".
Im old enough that my textbooks still had trig lookup tables when I was a kid. That seems silly now, but it was considered important at the time. I know slightly older people in publishing that used manual photosizers instead of just importing to photoshop.
I remember being told multiple times that VR was going to fix programming because you could just visually move conditional blocks around.
So we have smartphones and scratch and photoshop and whathaveyou, but...
We still need people to draw and write and photograph and sculpt.
we still need engineers to use the new models, and we still need mechanics to fix the computers and trains when they break.
If GPT-4 can pass a test, maybe it's a better reference point, or maybe a better study aid. Like taped language lessons vs reading pronunciation diagrams.
You'll never obviate people from the equation that is defined by people,regardless of that singularity that is just around the corner like cold fusion and self driving cars and the cure for the common cold.
Like the old "you can't use a calculator on a test because you won't always have a calculator".
Im old enough that my textbooks still had trig lookup tables when I was a kid. That seems silly now, but it was considered important at the time. I know slightly older people in publishing that used manual photosizers instead of just importing to photoshop.
I remember being told multiple times that VR was going to fix programming because you could just visually move conditional blocks around.
So we have smartphones and scratch and photoshop and whathaveyou, but...
We still need people to draw and write and photograph and sculpt. we still need engineers to use the new models, and we still need mechanics to fix the computers and trains when they break.
If GPT-4 can pass a test, maybe it's a better reference point, or maybe a better study aid. Like taped language lessons vs reading pronunciation diagrams.
You'll never obviate people from the equation that is defined by people,regardless of that singularity that is just around the corner like cold fusion and self driving cars and the cure for the common cold.