The cognitive effects are going to be so divergent. While the avid learners will learn knowledge and skills on the fly exponentially faster, the populace offloading thinking to the AI models will see unprecedented cognitive decline. This is similar to the effect that the internet had on knowledge retention but this time on critical thinking
For sure, agents tend to bang their heads against a wall, and can deviate in surprising ways to attempt to escape that wall. Balancing the scope of a plan and making agents stick to it is a tricky balance to strike
This is relatable. IMO the next layer of practical intelligence will be suites of purpose built agents backed by LLMs/SLMs. Context is precious when dealing with stateless tools like language models.