I had the exact same realization recently when our internet went down for a few days. I have a local LLM on my PC, and used it as a fake Google search, and to help me troubleshoot a couple programs. Not always accurate, but it did feel cool to have basically an internet search on my disconnected computer.
There’s an open question here about best practice, because ultimately shifting labour capacity from humans to machines should be inherently good, if its labour we did not want to be doing. I’d rather have machines capable of doing everything from my laundry to large data analysis, among many other things that don’t interest me.
The problem tends to arise in how the transition happens. If capitalists continue to separate labour from surplus value, it’s entirely possible that the benefits of automation are only experienced by capitalists, and the humans who were producing the labour are left destitute.
Really I would like to see a better regulatory environment mixed with stronger social support systems, so the benefits of automation are felt by everybody. Sometimes it feels like the focus shifts to stopping automation, when in my mind best practice should be to mitigate externalities and spread out the benefits.
We already knew many great apes preferred cooked food. That study is specifically about chimps.
I just found it mildly funny that the study was essentially titled “Humans prefer cooked food.”