What LLMs are doing aren't in comparable to wikipedia or your mom's washing machine.
What i am talking about is creativity, which is basically problem solving that you need in coding as well. And sure, you can relearn skills, but if you stop using for example your legs for significant amount of time, you lose muscle, and if there comes a time when you need to walk without help, you might not have that half a year to train yourself back to shape because you needed that ability now. So why wouldn't you keep that skill up now?
We are talking about strengthening links in your brain. You don't learn your skills that you have forgotten how to do back in a day. Not to mention when it comes to people born today, and if you have used AI since you were born.
What i am talking about is creativity, which is basically problem solving that you need in coding as well. And sure, you can relearn skills, but if you stop using for example your legs for significant amount of time, you lose muscle, and if there comes a time when you need to walk without help, you might not have that half a year to train yourself back to shape because you needed that ability now. So why wouldn't you keep that skill up now?
We are talking about strengthening links in your brain. You don't learn your skills that you have forgotten how to do back in a day. Not to mention when it comes to people born today, and if you have used AI since you were born.
Hey, that's my mom you are talking about!
Legs are a bad analogy - everyone has that skill and no one would stop using their legs if they didn't need to. Something more realistic would be playing the guitar. You stop playing guitar for a significant amount of time, it takes you time to relearn. (You lose muscle memory and need to re-learn) Why wouldn't you keep that skill up? There are a number of reasons people get bored of playing guitar.
Isn't creativity your interpretation of things you have seen and heard? Isn't your unique interpretation based on your unique experiences in life? LLMs are large datasets of organized information - creating a new piece of art or music is not magical - it's just AI designing music the same way Taylor Swift does, except it can scratch out and rewrite a million times faster.
What AI does today is enhance your creativity. You can tell it your idea and it will create it and it will be a unique piece of art with the same value as if you made it yourself. If it steals the tempo of one song and a few lines from another, it's no different than what any other artist does.
But what about non creativity, like the protein folding discovery? Millions of people ran it as their screensaver for a decasde but AI solved it. Can we agree that AI is helpful in some areas?