An interesting thinking point on this is to, more broadly, consider the impact that advances in machinery have made to humanity's industrial sector. There are vast stories and accounts of people fearful of job loss/redundancy when we have inevitably developed an automation to take over more repetitive/mind numbing tasks. What ends up happening, generally, is you see humanity gain the ability to discover and innovate as they now have the time and energy to put into it.
What's interesting is I have to wonder if this is something that would extend to our own way of thinking, as discussed here with the short term affects we're already describing with increased dependence on LLMs, GPS systems, etc. There have been studies which have shown that those of who grew up using search engines exclusively did not lose or gain anything with respect to brain power, instead they developed a different means of retaining the information (i.e. they are less likely to remember the exact fact but they will remember how to find it). It makes me wonder if this is the next step in that same process and those of us in the transition period will lament what we think we'll lose, or if LLM dependency presents a point of diminishing return where we do lose a skill without replacing it.
What's interesting is I have to wonder if this is something that would extend to our own way of thinking, as discussed here with the short term affects we're already describing with increased dependence on LLMs, GPS systems, etc. There have been studies which have shown that those of who grew up using search engines exclusively did not lose or gain anything with respect to brain power, instead they developed a different means of retaining the information (i.e. they are less likely to remember the exact fact but they will remember how to find it). It makes me wonder if this is the next step in that same process and those of us in the transition period will lament what we think we'll lose, or if LLM dependency presents a point of diminishing return where we do lose a skill without replacing it.