@thomasfuchs This is much earlier than the 70s but might be something you'd dig: "The Human Use of Human Beings - Cybernetics and Society" by Norbert Wiener. First published in 1950, but I found it really fascinating and surprisingly relevant still.
@thomasfuchs We all agree "garbage in, garbage out" here. I also agree there probably is a turning point in 2023 where the inputs can't be assumed to be human generated. I've been assuming the primary symptom will be content-based.
@thomasfuchs One thing I think about is separating the "knowledge" we expect from an LLM from the "language processing". I think the former will do as you say, but the latter can improve. So, things like the ability to translate from one language to another, or from speech to text, will get better.
@thomasfuchs The local Walgreens removed the drive-thru pneumatic tubes, also.
Although you could argue that this idea has theoretical potential, most failure conditions if anything were to go wrong would be generally catastrophic.
Nature abhors a vacuum. Nature has equally strong opinions about vacuum-based systems, too.