alt Hacker NewsThe same attitude has been directed at points through history for people "who depend on the internet," "who depend on computers," and "who depend on machines."
I was told growing up "you won't always have a calculator in your pocket" and yet now my phone has an offline LLM on it.
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> I was told growing up "you won't always have a calculator in your pocket" and yet now my phone has an offline LLM on it.
But does your world stop when the phone is out of power? And does every task require a roundtrip to the internet?
> "I was told growing up "you won't always have a calculator in your pocket" and yet now my phone has an offline LLM on it."
While I think the person you are responding to has made a low quality comment, I will say that it is very, very revealing that so many AI advocates actually seem proud of their absence of basic math skills.
And if you can’t see the difference between those things, you’ll probably never know.