I know search engines did.
AI would do far more cognitive damage because you would hardly have to think at all.
Ain’t gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lie
Everything you think, do and say
Is in the pill you took today
Gee, ya think?
The “Technology Trap” is closing in.
I use to have a hundred or so phone numbers memorized. Now... pffft. I barely remember my own.
I can’t wait for AI to take over my book keeping and Tex prep. I hate doing that.
I’m trying to understand what this article is telling me, but I’m just not getting it ...
Co Pilot is annoying. Bring back the earlier versions of Microsoft.
I will have my AI assistant write a witty reply.
Completely agree. Technology is engineered to remove the uncertainty of humanity. It should be engineered to enhance the human, not remove him.
How is AI any different than MSM? As Reagan use to say, trust but verify...
Perplexity.ai search engine makes a damn fine replacement for google or even duckduckgo though.
Whenever one of the AI assistants popup on my computer usage activates and asks me how it can assist me, I yell at it and insult it and tell it that it is not welcome in my life. It them tells me that it will leave me alone but be in a corner and wait.
If Skynet is keeping a list of naughty or nice, I’m on the list for elimination.
“may lead to a decline in users’ critical thinking abilities.”
Television, professional sports, mobile phones, video games, the Internet, Twitter (pre-X), Facebook, Snapchat, TikTok, Telegram, email, and InstaGram already did that.
AI will wipe out the very little critical thinking skills that are left.
Researchers observed that employees who frequently relied on AI for task completion exhibited diminished critical thinking skills compared to their less-dependent counterparts. These findings align with anecdotal reports from users expressing concerns about a decline in their cognitive engagement due to habitual AI use. One user noted, “I can really see that ChatGPT will make us more dumb as we will increasingly use AI without thinking and engaging our brain.”
From Phaedrus by Plato
(Socrates telling the story of the invention of letters by Theuth in Egypt)But when they came to letters, This, said Theuth, will make the Egyptians wiser and give them better memories; it is a specific both for the memory and for the wit. Thamus replied: O most ingenious Theuth, the parent or inventor of an art is not always the best judge of the utility or inutility of his own inventions to the users of them. And in this instance, you who are the father of letters, from a paternal love of your own children have been led to attribute to them a quality which they cannot have; for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.
Wow, ya think??????
It's a good thing we have all these *experts* around to warn us of common sense things we couldn't figure out ourselves.
QUICK! We need to dump more money into funding their useless research.
Once AI is harnessed to data mine crypto currency, the value cryptocurrency could drop thru the floor.
Nope.
Not me.
I ignore their crap.
Yep, exactly. I could have told them that.
Claiming that AI assistants will cause cognitive decline is like saying library catalogs, the Dewey Decimal System, and/or hiring a great secretary will do the same.
If you’re intellectually lazy, AI might accelerate that decline—but if you’re intellectually lazy, you’ve likely already lost those skills.