Will AI make thinking extinct?

"If we force the poors to be reliant on a new technology AND declare that that technology causes people to lose their ability to think, we can get rid of those pesky human rights laws!"

before i get strawmanned: no i dont think "AI" (by which i mean LLMs like chatgpt) is anywhere close to being as good/useful as writing. Still:

im sick of the exaggeration about this stuff, writing didnt kill thinking, google search didnt kill thinking, and these LLMs wont kill thinking either

realized just now this was posted to c/slop so this isnt directed at you OP

I think the hype is on the down swing. It seems they're gonna try again with newer, more mathematically efficient models or something. Telling ppl not to worry about this shit will always be an uphill battle bc not only are the hype-men, salesmen, and the bougies trying to scare the public & their workers w/ this stuff. Ppl that should really know better have also convinced themselves.
I feel as though the creator of Nodejs (a monumental step forward for Javascript and a technology that helps websites like these run) would be able to think introspectively and accept that intelligence is far more complex than a complex statistical model but I am wrong
- lol, he still thinks the Turing test is somehow an indicator of something
- Creator of nodejs? Fucking dipshit loser who lowered my quality of life. Lemmy does not use nodejs.
  Computer programming is one long struggle session among the nerdiest people you ever know, not this pompous Zionist level delusions of self grandeur.
- people most often believe what they want to believe so what this says to me is that even though he is very smart, he wants to believe we have figured out/are on the very cusp of figuring out GAI so he is much more inclined to take evidence that suggests that supports what he wants to believe (OMG LOOK THEY PASSED THE TURING TEST!?!?!?) at face value rather than thinking about whether the turing test is actually even a valid way of determining this kind of thing or not.