Did search engines result in a local maximum of human ability to organize information? LLMs are the next logical step, except instead of organizing information, they synthesize it. I expect this will lead to increased creative output from humans who will be unburdened of the task of synthesizing information, in the same way search engines unburdened us from the need to organize, recall and locate information.

It may make some people "dumber" in the same way that Google has eliminated the need to commit information to long-term memory. And yet you still remember things, or at least, you remember how to look them up (personally, I often find myself remembering what to search for to find an exact answer, rather than the answer itself). Search engines gave our memory space to remember more abstract, higher level concepts. Similarly, LLMs will free our brain to synthesize higher levels of information.