Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills
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The only beneficial use I've had for "AI" (LLMs) has just been rewriting text, whether that be to re-explain a topic based on a source, or, for instance, sort and shorten/condense a list.
Everything other than that has been completely incorrect, unreadably long, context-lacking slop.
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It would wake me up more than coffee that's for sure
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Garbage in, Garbage out. Ingesting all that internet blather didn't make the ai smarter by much if anything.
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Copying isn't the same as using your brain to form logical conclusions. Instead your taking someone else's wild interpretation, research, study, and blindly copying it as fact. That lowers critical thinking because your not thinking at all. Bad information is always bad no matter how far it spreads. Incomplete info is no different.
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Like any tool, it's only as good as the person wielding it.
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I use a bespoke model to spin up pop quizzes, and I use NovelAI for fun.
Legit, being able to say "I want these questions. But... not these..." and get them back in a moment's notice really does let me say "FUCK it. Pop quiz. Let's go, class." And be ready with brand new questions on the board that I didn't have before I said that sentence. NAI is a good way to turn writing into an interactive DnD session, and is a great way to force a ram through writer's block, with a "yeah, and—!" machine.
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Hey, just letting you know getting the answers you want after getting a whole lot of answers you dont want is pretty much how everyone learns.
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“Deepsink” lmao sounds like some sink cleaner brand
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yes, exactly. You lose your critical thinking skills
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I’d agree that anybody who just takes the first answer offered them by any means as fact would have the same results as this study.
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Unlike those others, Microsoft could do something about this considering they are literally part of the problem.
And yet I doubt Copilot will be going anywhere.
