I simply see the recent adoption and increased use of these techs in a simple manner.
Humans have failed the Turing test.
Machines didn't pass it. Humans failed.
"AI" and LLMs are problematic, because the vast majority of people don't have the adequate critical reading and research skills required to interrogate the output in any great depth.
I have used these tools with less and less frequency over the last few months, and while it is good for some basic, background information (or, as an automated reddit, which could be wrong) - I do not see great value in advancing our cognitive skills by using such a tool.
If we want to stay on the current level, sure, but if we want to be smarter and make new discoveries, no.
Yeah, so far the validity of the AI output has been biased depending on the information sources it's drawing from—until it has the ability to truly "think" and discern independent of source data. This is what's coming soon. OpenAI has very likely already achieved this but are holding off on the release until they can develop and market wearables to run it. Meta is poaching OpenAI's employees on a huge scale now that the goal has been achieved at OpenAI. Once xAI doubles their computing power with the most recent Colossus upgrade they'll probably be right up there in the top three.
Industrial era is done. Information technology era is done. Post-truth era is done.
I shudder to think what a human society post-thought would look like. Perhaps we're already seeing the beginnings of it.
Not sure if that's an environmental product of all the overlapping influences of society, but when the frontal lobes of infants who've never seen an encyclopaedia or a reference library in the flesh completely mature in 25 years or so; its gonna be a heck of a ride.
I was so happy to find that Freethink video yesterday. It explained the cycle we're going through and how America (and the world) have experienced similar cycles three times in since the late 1700's. They describe the years leading up to the paradigm shift as being very chaotic and that definitely tracks.