Smart people are often too arrogant and proud, and know too much.
I thought that might be the case. If you looked at GPT-3 or 3.5, then, the higher the quality of your own work, the less helpful (and, potentially, the more destructive and disruptive) it is to substitute in the LLM’s work; so higher IQ in these early years of LLMs may correlate with dismissing them and having little experience using them.
But this is a temporary effect. Those who initially dismissed LLMs will eventually come round; and, among younger people, especially as LLMs get better, higher-IQ people who try LLMs for the first time will find them worthwhile and use them just as much as their peers. And if you have two people who have both spent N hours using the same LLM for the same purposes, higher IQ will help, all else being equal.
Of course, if you’re simply reporting a correlation you observe, then all else is likely not equal. Please think about selection effects, such as those described here.
I thought that might be the case. If you looked at GPT-3 or 3.5, then, the higher the quality of your own work, the less helpful (and, potentially, the more destructive and disruptive) it is to substitute in the LLM’s work; so higher IQ in these early years of LLMs may correlate with dismissing them and having little experience using them.
But this is a temporary effect. Those who initially dismissed LLMs will eventually come round; and, among younger people, especially as LLMs get better, higher-IQ people who try LLMs for the first time will find them worthwhile and use them just as much as their peers. And if you have two people who have both spent N hours using the same LLM for the same purposes, higher IQ will help, all else being equal.
Of course, if you’re simply reporting a correlation you observe, then all else is likely not equal. Please think about selection effects, such as those described here.