Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills
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Gemini told me critical thinking wasn't important. So I guess that's ok.
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No shit.
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Corporations and politicians: oh great news everyone... It worked. Time to kick off phase 2...
- Replace all the water trump wasted in California with brawndo
- Sell mortgages for eggs, but call them patriot pods
- Welcome to Costco, I love you
- All medicine replaced with raw milk enemas
- Handjobs at Starbucks
- Ow my balls, Tuesdays this fall on CBS
- Chocolate rations have gone up from 10 to 6
- All government vehicles are cybertrucks
- trump nft cartoons on all USD, incest legal, Ivanka new first lady.
- Public executions on pay per view, lowered into deep fried turkey fryer on white house lawn, your meat is then mixed in with the other mechanically separated protein on the Tyson foods processing line (run exclusively by 3rd graders) and packaged without distinction on label.
- FDA doesn't inspect food or drugs. Everything approved and officially change acronym to F(uck You) D(umb) A(ss)
I love how you mix in the Idiocracy quotes
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i use my thinking skills to tell the LLM to quit fucking up and try again or I'm gonna fire his ass
Keep it on its toes... Ask chatgpt, then copy paste the answer and ask perplexity why that's wrong and go back and forth...human, AI, Human, AI...until you get a satisfactory answer.
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That's the same company that approved Clippie and the magic wizard.
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Iâm surprised they even published this finding given how hard theyâre pushing AI.
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Oddly enough that's exactly what corporate wants. Mindless drones to do their bidding unquestioned
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I love how you mix in the Idiocracy quotes
I hate how it just seems to slide in.
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Iâm surprised they even published this finding given how hard theyâre pushing AI.
That's because they're bragging, not warning.
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Of course. Relying on a lighter kills your ability to start a fire without one. Its nothing new.
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Remember the:
Personal computers were âbicycles for the mind.â
I guess with AI and social media it's more like melting your mind or something. I can't find another analogy. Like a baseball bat to your leg for the mind doesn't roll off the tongue.
I know Primeagen has turned off copilot because he said the "copilot pause" daunting and affects how he codes.
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Keep it on its toes... Ask chatgpt, then copy paste the answer and ask perplexity why that's wrong and go back and forth...human, AI, Human, AI...until you get a satisfactory answer.
i like to say "are you sure you even understand this? do you know what youâre doing or do i need to spell it out for you?!"
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Corporations and politicians: oh great news everyone... It worked. Time to kick off phase 2...
- Replace all the water trump wasted in California with brawndo
- Sell mortgages for eggs, but call them patriot pods
- Welcome to Costco, I love you
- All medicine replaced with raw milk enemas
- Handjobs at Starbucks
- Ow my balls, Tuesdays this fall on CBS
- Chocolate rations have gone up from 10 to 6
- All government vehicles are cybertrucks
- trump nft cartoons on all USD, incest legal, Ivanka new first lady.
- Public executions on pay per view, lowered into deep fried turkey fryer on white house lawn, your meat is then mixed in with the other mechanically separated protein on the Tyson foods processing line (run exclusively by 3rd graders) and packaged without distinction on label.
- FDA doesn't inspect food or drugs. Everything approved and officially change acronym to F(uck You) D(umb) A(ss)
Bullet point 3 was my single issue vote
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I love how you mix in the Idiocracy quotes
A savvy consumer, glad you mentioned. Felt better than hitting it on the nose.
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When was the last time you did math without a calculator?
Calculators also donât think critically.
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Calculators also donât think critically.
Damn. I wonder where all the calculus identities and mathematical puzzle solving abilities in my head disappeared to then. Surely not into the void that is Wolfram Mathematica. Surely not...
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Really? I just asked ChatGPT and this is what it had to say:
This claim is misleading because AI can enhance critical thinking by providing diverse perspectives, data analysis, and automating routine tasks, allowing users to focus on higher-order reasoning. Critical thinking depends on how AI is usedâpassively accepting outputs may weaken it, but actively questioning, interpreting, and applying AI-generated insights can strengthen cognitive skills.
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Based on what? Did they get 1000 people 10 years ago, test their critical thinking skills then retest after heavy AI use? How many people were in the control?
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Pretty shit âstudyâ. If workers use AI for a task, obviously the results will be less diverse. That doesnât mean their critical thinking skills deteriorated. It means they used a tool that produces a certain outcome. This doesnât test their critical thinking at all.
âAnother noteworthy finding of the study: users who had access to generative AI tools tended to produce âa less diverse set of outcomes for the same taskâ compared to those without. That passes the sniff test. If youâre using an AI tool to complete a task, youâre going to be limited to what that tool can generate based on its training data. These tools arenât infinite idea machines, they can only work with what they have, so it checks out that their outputs would be more homogenous. Researchers wrote that this lack of diverse outcomes could be interpreted as a âdeterioration of critical thinkingâ for workers.â
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Pretty shit âstudyâ. If workers use AI for a task, obviously the results will be less diverse. That doesnât mean their critical thinking skills deteriorated. It means they used a tool that produces a certain outcome. This doesnât test their critical thinking at all.
âAnother noteworthy finding of the study: users who had access to generative AI tools tended to produce âa less diverse set of outcomes for the same taskâ compared to those without. That passes the sniff test. If youâre using an AI tool to complete a task, youâre going to be limited to what that tool can generate based on its training data. These tools arenât infinite idea machines, they can only work with what they have, so it checks out that their outputs would be more homogenous. Researchers wrote that this lack of diverse outcomes could be interpreted as a âdeterioration of critical thinkingâ for workers.â
That doesnât mean their critical thinking skills deteriorated. It means they used a tool that produces a certain outcome.
Dunning, meet Kruger
