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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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We'll have to agree to disagree then. My hype argument perfectly matches your point of people wrongly perceiving llms as ai but my point goes further.
AI is a search engine on steroids with all the drawbacks. It produces no more accurate results, has no more information, does not do anything else but take the research effort away which is proven to make people dumber. More importantly, llms gobble up energy like crazy and need rare ressources which are taken from exploited countries. In addition to that, they are a privacy nightmare and proven to systematically harm small creators due to breach of intellectual property, which is especially brutal for them.
So no, there is no redeeming qualities in llms in their current form. They should be outlawed immediately and at most, locally used in specific cases.