From my perspective, good things about smartphones:
phone and camera and navigation is the same device
very rarely, check something online
buy tickets for mass transit
my contacts are backed up in the cloud
Bad things:
notifications
The advantages outweigh the disadvantages, but it requires discipline about what you install.
(Food for though: If only I had the same discipline about which web services I create an account for and put them into bookmarks on my PC.)
People would sometimes say something like “John, you should really get a smartphone, you’ll fall behind without one” and my gut response was roughly “No, I’m staying in place, and the rest of you are moving backwards”.
Similar here, but that’s because no one could give me a good use case. (I don’t consider social networks on smartphone to be good.)
And it’s probably similar with LLMs, depends on how specifically you use them. I use them to ask questions (like a smarter version of Google) that I try to verify e.g. on Wikipedia afterwards, and sometimes to write code. Those seem like good things to me. There are probably bad ways to use them, but that is not what I would typically do.
From my perspective, good things about smartphones:
phone and camera and navigation is the same device
very rarely, check something online
buy tickets for mass transit
my contacts are backed up in the cloud
Bad things:
notifications
The advantages outweigh the disadvantages, but it requires discipline about what you install.
(Food for though: If only I had the same discipline about which web services I create an account for and put them into bookmarks on my PC.)
Similar here, but that’s because no one could give me a good use case. (I don’t consider social networks on smartphone to be good.)
And it’s probably similar with LLMs, depends on how specifically you use them. I use them to ask questions (like a smarter version of Google) that I try to verify e.g. on Wikipedia afterwards, and sometimes to write code. Those seem like good things to me. There are probably bad ways to use them, but that is not what I would typically do.