That ship has already sailed judging by the ever increasing meatheads!
Zach_bdbd on
Arguably, social media has already made us all less intelligent. AI just speeds up the decline.
FragrantGearHead on
They actually said AI would cause humans to have less critical thinking skills.
But to be fair, that’s been in short supply for a while now…
Most people I meet just want answers. They couldn’t give a stuff how someone arrived at that answer, completely uninterested in the reasoning behind it.
TobiasX2k on
“Could”? Fairly sure it already has and it’s an arms race to the bottom.
Negative-Date-9518 on
Already happened, people are getting dumber by the year
Sgt-Pattern2324 on
AI is the beginning of the end. Its about time we went extinct.
Adam9172 on
“Could” is extremely optimistic. “Has done.” Is how is phrase it.
D00mScrollingRumi on
Tech already is and i can see AI making it way worse.
Im 39 and when I started driving I had to learn how to use a road map, plan where I wanted to go and remember the turns etc I had to make. If you got lost, had to figure out where on the map you were and adjust accordingly.
Then mapquest did the planning for you.
Then GPS and smartphones came along. Be honest how many of you could drive 30 miles in a totally unfamiliar area with only a physical map as a guide? Id get there eventually but id struggle much more than when I was 19.
We’re offloading more and more of our mental tasks to machines and I think AI does so more than any previous tech.
FutilePenguins on
A.I is a biproduct of human intellect, I think aslong as we keep innovating we’ll be fine
pinkwar on
Social media already caused brain rot. Can’t get any worse right?
Anyales on
The average human is an idiot and half of us are more stupid than that.
I don’t think AI is making us more stupid, its making people who are stupid able to get half right sounding answers.
AI will make you know less about the things you are trying to learn though. Very few people will put in enough hours to actually learn things through AI so are left with Dunning Krueger writ large.
pitiless on
My experience with colleagues who rely heavily on this shit aligns with what the Royal Observatory says; if one more person tells me “I put your question into chatgpt and this is what it said” I’m gonna flip a table.
It’s straight up embarrassing to see how much some people have offloaded their cognition onto these tools.
noir_lord on
I’m a programmer (software engineer), when AI started getting traction in that area it was laughably bad but it has improved considerably over the last few years to a point where it’s not always bad (while still going off the reservation enough/hallucinating that you still have to spend significant amounts of time checking it didn’t do stupid things).
*However* other than poking it with a stick once in a while I *don’t use it for work/programming* because I saw that relying on it as a crutch *would* atrophy my skills and suspected that since brains are lazy (like really lazy) the things you don’t think about/recall you forget and the end point of that would leave me unable to program at the same current level *without* AI.
So I made the judgement call that short term AI might help me get stuff done (maybe) but long term it’s a lot like weaponised learned helplessness and swerved it.
Something else I noticed while experimenting with AI as a “just answer a specific question” tool was that answers I got from the AI didn’t “stick” the same way as either googling it and looking at code to understand what they did and how it was related *or* figuring it out myself from the documentation.
I’m curious what the next generation of programmers are going to look like who’ve grown up in a world with Claude et all, We already have a younger generation of programmers who (broadly with exceptions) understand much less about how the machine actually works underneath because they’ve never had to work with older/lower level machines/languages and have only lived in a world with stupidly fast machines and very good (mostly) abstractions over the machine.
*Don’t delegate your thinking to a machine that doesn’t think.*
emth on
In a professional environment, this is kind of the point of AI. Just like driving a forklift doesn’t require as much physical conditioning as (safely) lifting things manually.
The problem is that AI right now is an intelligence multiplier, someone with great critical thinking will be able to get more out of it than someone without those skills.
It’s unfortunate society spent decades shitting on video games, which are an excellent way of boosting critical thinking in a fun way
Correct-Junket-1346 on
Cue fundamental technological misunderstandings and bias confirmation in the comments.
bagsofsmoke on
It absolutely has. People are outsourcing even basic tasks like writing an email. If you don’t use your muscles, they atrophy. The same could be said of the human brain. Under the guise of “augmenting” human intelligence we’re simply reducing it.
ClericalRogue on
Yea i dont think anyone who already had a brain is surprised to hear this 😅.
LOTDT on
I think this is obvious. The same way that driving aides make you a worse driver (Since getting a car with a reversing camera, I noticed I now struggle to reverse cars that don’t), AI will damage people’s ability to reason.
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That ship has already sailed judging by the ever increasing meatheads!
Arguably, social media has already made us all less intelligent. AI just speeds up the decline.
They actually said AI would cause humans to have less critical thinking skills.
But to be fair, that’s been in short supply for a while now…
Most people I meet just want answers. They couldn’t give a stuff how someone arrived at that answer, completely uninterested in the reasoning behind it.
“Could”? Fairly sure it already has and it’s an arms race to the bottom.
Already happened, people are getting dumber by the year
AI is the beginning of the end. Its about time we went extinct.
“Could” is extremely optimistic. “Has done.” Is how is phrase it.
Tech already is and i can see AI making it way worse.
Im 39 and when I started driving I had to learn how to use a road map, plan where I wanted to go and remember the turns etc I had to make. If you got lost, had to figure out where on the map you were and adjust accordingly.
Then mapquest did the planning for you.
Then GPS and smartphones came along. Be honest how many of you could drive 30 miles in a totally unfamiliar area with only a physical map as a guide? Id get there eventually but id struggle much more than when I was 19.
We’re offloading more and more of our mental tasks to machines and I think AI does so more than any previous tech.
A.I is a biproduct of human intellect, I think aslong as we keep innovating we’ll be fine
Social media already caused brain rot. Can’t get any worse right?
The average human is an idiot and half of us are more stupid than that.
I don’t think AI is making us more stupid, its making people who are stupid able to get half right sounding answers.
AI will make you know less about the things you are trying to learn though. Very few people will put in enough hours to actually learn things through AI so are left with Dunning Krueger writ large.
My experience with colleagues who rely heavily on this shit aligns with what the Royal Observatory says; if one more person tells me “I put your question into chatgpt and this is what it said” I’m gonna flip a table.
It’s straight up embarrassing to see how much some people have offloaded their cognition onto these tools.
I’m a programmer (software engineer), when AI started getting traction in that area it was laughably bad but it has improved considerably over the last few years to a point where it’s not always bad (while still going off the reservation enough/hallucinating that you still have to spend significant amounts of time checking it didn’t do stupid things).
*However* other than poking it with a stick once in a while I *don’t use it for work/programming* because I saw that relying on it as a crutch *would* atrophy my skills and suspected that since brains are lazy (like really lazy) the things you don’t think about/recall you forget and the end point of that would leave me unable to program at the same current level *without* AI.
So I made the judgement call that short term AI might help me get stuff done (maybe) but long term it’s a lot like weaponised learned helplessness and swerved it.
Something else I noticed while experimenting with AI as a “just answer a specific question” tool was that answers I got from the AI didn’t “stick” the same way as either googling it and looking at code to understand what they did and how it was related *or* figuring it out myself from the documentation.
I’m curious what the next generation of programmers are going to look like who’ve grown up in a world with Claude et all, We already have a younger generation of programmers who (broadly with exceptions) understand much less about how the machine actually works underneath because they’ve never had to work with older/lower level machines/languages and have only lived in a world with stupidly fast machines and very good (mostly) abstractions over the machine.
*Don’t delegate your thinking to a machine that doesn’t think.*
In a professional environment, this is kind of the point of AI. Just like driving a forklift doesn’t require as much physical conditioning as (safely) lifting things manually.
The problem is that AI right now is an intelligence multiplier, someone with great critical thinking will be able to get more out of it than someone without those skills.
It’s unfortunate society spent decades shitting on video games, which are an excellent way of boosting critical thinking in a fun way
Cue fundamental technological misunderstandings and bias confirmation in the comments.
It absolutely has. People are outsourcing even basic tasks like writing an email. If you don’t use your muscles, they atrophy. The same could be said of the human brain. Under the guise of “augmenting” human intelligence we’re simply reducing it.
Yea i dont think anyone who already had a brain is surprised to hear this 😅.
I think this is obvious. The same way that driving aides make you a worse driver (Since getting a car with a reversing camera, I noticed I now struggle to reverse cars that don’t), AI will damage people’s ability to reason.