alt Hacker NewsThere is zero evidence for this.
LLMs make significant mistakes frequently and smart people have no way of judging those mistakes outside their domain expertise. They are also sycophantic and great at being an echo chamber which makes people feel smart even if they are not.
So I think the burden of proof is on you to prove that they somehow amplify intelligence, it seems highly unlikely.
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Barbing • today at 8:02 PM
No evidence but somewhat of a counterpoints:
Smart people know LLMs confabulate and tell them they’re Absolutely Right! Smart people don’t want to be embarrassed by trusting the hallucination machine and revealing their gullibility to others.
Most domains have some kind of internal consistency/theory building you can do. A smart person can certainly notice inconsistencies when trying to learn something. In fact they're likely to be points of confusion that the smart person will dive into just to try to make sense of things, even if they don't suspect the LLM is at fault.