Simon WillisonAnother note in favour of "electric bicycles for the mind" as an analogy for large language models: nobody should ride an electric bicycle without first learning how to use it
And how to ride it safely, both for themselves and for other people
Tim Bray@simon Not with you on this one… I never did any study or manual-reading, just switched from a regular bike to an e-bike between one commuting day and the next and suddenly everything was so much faster and less painful. I don't think the LLM analogy holds water.
@timbray to clarify, I'm including learning to ride a non-electric bike as part of this
Justin Maxwell@simon @timbray mastodon is showing me this conversation so i hope it's ok if i butt in
if i am reading this correctly...
the biggest assholes in ebike world are those who don't know the rules of non-ebike-world, the 30mph in bike lane folks w/o 'on your left' warnings, the ones trashing trails, etc.
w/r/t media literacy, understanding how the LLM works, understanding how it generates output, all that. = your mind should be critical and understand the model first.