Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use.
  • gamer@lemm.eeEnglish
    17·
    11 hours ago

    Calculators made mental math obsolete. GPS apps made people forget how to navigate on their own.

    Maybe those are good innovations or not. Arguments can be made both ways, I guess.

    But if AI causes critical thinking skills to atrophy, I think it’s hard to argue that that’s a good thing for humanity. Maybe the end game is that AI achieves sentience and takes over the world, but is benevolent, and takes care of us like beloved pets (humans are AI’s best friend). Is that good? Idk

    Or maybe this isn’t a real issue and the study is flawed, or more realistically, my interpretation of the study is wrong because I only read the headline of this article and not the study itself?

    Who knows?

    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7·
      10 hours ago

      It’s developed by the worst of us and taught by a bunch of shit it read on reddit. You’re thinking it might be benevolent?

    • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      10 hours ago

      I perceive my advanced tools akin to a broom.

      I can mop floors alright, but I also don’t want to sit down with a cloth to do it.

      If I can’t do that myself, and it does that instead of me, that’s not just my tool, that’s my employee, and the one I now depend on.

      ‘AI’ companies sell us billions of hours of other people’s labor to replace our own need to interject our experience and ingrain themselves into our routine. Like the coming of ads, it’s already normalized. But this time, critical parts of our life has this black box dependancy and subscription.

  • DomeGuy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    13 hours ago

    So, AI users exhibit a reduction in literally the one skill that the AI expects them to actually have?

    I should probably go read that link and see if it’s actual degradation or just selection.

    • DomeGuy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      13 hours ago

      Spoiler alert : it was just a survey of the reported confidence of folk who admitted to using AI.

  • CrowAirbrush@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    16 hours ago

    I think we already came to that conclusion ourselves, Tiktok made us aware i think…leading to terms like brainrot and slop.

    But it’s good to see it is recognized.

  • latenightnoir@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    15 hours ago

    Well, to be fair, I never had the idea of sticking pizza toppings with glue… That’s some next level Gordian Knot stuff, right there!