Researchers surprised to find less-educated areas adopting AI writing tools faster
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There is published research that using AI makes people worse at critical thinking. It’s not gatekeeping, it’s a legitimate concern.
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If they can’t think or write on their own then what is their value? Why not just go straight to the LLM and cut out the middle man?
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I mean, books did make us worse at memorizing. I think its give and take. There are some things that are good to cognitively offload to an AI.
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I do agree that there are tasks that are good to offload to AI. I don’t believe that reading and writing should be. AI can be a great tool. Ironically, since you mentioned memorization, I can’t possibly retain 100% the information I’ve learned in career and so using LLMs to point to the correct documentation or to create some boilerplate has greatly improved my productivity.
I’ve used AI as a conversational tool to assist in finding legitimate information to answer search queries (not just accept its output at face value) and generating boilerplate code (and not just using it as another stack overflow and copying and paste the code it gives you without understanding). The challenge is that if we try to replace 100% of the task of communication or research or coding, you eventually lose those skills. And I worry for Jrs who are just building those skills but have totally relied on AI to do the work that’s supposed to teach them those skills.
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You mean people who haven't been taught to write quickly, easily, and with their own style tend to look to automate writing faster than those who write better than ai, can do so quickly, and have the proficiency to see it as a form of self expression?
Shocked I tell you. Also not surprised AI researchers are surprised
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Oh, nice username. Almost got me there
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Unfortunately not the case with calculators. Lots of triple font learn thr math they ask a machine to do for them
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Grammar and now even spelling correction are increasingly unable to match my written style. Especially when I decide to play with my language.
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This is the way
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That would be great, but I just don't see it happening. The way things are going well be lucky to have a Department of Education in a few years, and public schools might be following right behind. Even if everything turns around tomorrow, all the resources in the world wont get everyone to the level you are aiming at. There are people out there who do not see any value in literacy and there are people who don't have the brain power. You could assign full time private tutors to follow them around and try to teach them things for their whole lives and you'd barely get anywhere. That's just something well have to live with. There's never been a society where everyone was intellectually active, its always been a more or less influential minority. If you want to improve society the best approach making the intellectual voice more influential, not trying to educate the gleefully ignorant.
