> And second, I am completely uninterested in what AI has to offer. To me (and most normal people) knowledge pursuit is about inspiring others with discovery and the intellectual joy of doing something yourself.

I often hear that people are "uninterested in what AI has to offer" but I don't really understand it. I understand this is a mix of ethics and engineering that I don't often engage with but I do not understand why someone would explicitly state that they are not interested in improvements to the world based on the source of the improvement.

The comment I am replying to did not say that LLMs cannot create improvements. That would be a different discussion! It instead says that it does not care about fruits born from the LLM tree.

It seems highly likely to me that through a combination of LLMs and traditional optimization software like vizier that manufacturing, industrial processes, scientific research, or even bakeries will see some improved output through the mixing of domain specific expertise and enablement from LLMs.

I think right now, in the extreme hype environment we live in where people say AI will do everything and take over the world and take your job and give you nothing, people are burned out. Once we get past this point through I am hoping people start talking about what LLMs can do that will actually improve our lives and which can actually work. Much of what people tell me LLMs can do, don't actually work reliably. But there are many cases where LLMs have been a step function in capabilities.

Examples: OCR that really works, fuzzy search, fixing scoped bugs in software, building prototypes of software, etc.