>I'm old enough to remember people telling me I wouldn't always have a calculator handy, and obviously that didn't age very well.
Logical error though. The analogy to calculator is poor.
With a calculator it doesn’t matter what your opinion of 17×93 is. There is a right answer and a way to get there. Our ability to get output from a calculator doesn’t change because more or less people use them.
With AI prompted writing, there is no right answer, and what it spits out only exists because other people already wrote on the topic. The quality of the writing is entirely dependent on samples and usage.
The analogy is fine, as it applies to my example of an AI handling the entire course load of your average college student. Math, science, creative writing, etc...
Logical error though. The analogy to calculator is poor.
With a calculator it doesn’t matter what your opinion of 17×93 is. There is a right answer and a way to get there. Our ability to get output from a calculator doesn’t change because more or less people use them.
With AI prompted writing, there is no right answer, and what it spits out only exists because other people already wrote on the topic. The quality of the writing is entirely dependent on samples and usage.