Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills
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Oddly enough that's exactly what corporate wants. Mindless drones to do their bidding unquestioned
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I hate how it just seems to slide in.
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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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i like to say "are you sure you even understand this? do you know what you’re doing or do i need to spell it out for you?!"
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Bullet point 3 was my single issue vote
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A savvy consumer, glad you mentioned. Felt better than hitting it on the nose.
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Calculators also don’t think critically.
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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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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 “study”. If workers use AI for a task, obviously the results will be less diverse. That doesn’t mean their critical thinking skills deteriorated. It means they used a tool that produces a certain outcome. This doesn’t test their critical thinking at all.
“Another noteworthy finding of the study: users who had access to generative AI tools tended to produce “a less diverse set of outcomes for the same task” compared to those without. That passes the sniff test. If you’re using an AI tool to complete a task, you’re going to be limited to what that tool can generate based on its training data. These tools aren’t 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 “deterioration of critical thinking” for workers.”
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That doesn’t mean their critical thinking skills deteriorated. It means they used a tool that produces a certain outcome.
Dunning, meet Kruger
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Well that's just solid policy right there, cum on.
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You mean an AI that literally generated text based on applying a mathematical function to input text doesn't do reasoning for me? (/s)
I'm pretty certain every programmer alive knew this was coming as soon as we saw people trying to use it years ago.
It's funny because I never get what I want out of AI. I've been thinking this whole time "am I just too dumb to ask the AI to do what I need?" Now I'm beginning to think "am I not dumb enough to find AI tools useful?"
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Cars for the mind.
Cars are killing people.
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Critical thinking skills are what hold me back from relying on ai
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Not sure if sarcasm..
