The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers
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You see, an alternative way to make your AI pass the Turing test is just to use it to make all humans more stupid.
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How fancy we talking? The most my fancy IDE tools extend to is like creating functions for me or creating a loop and junk like that. It's not writing any of my code more than autocorrect is writing an essay for me.
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I don't use the fancy autocomplete. I ask the AI to generate a boilerplate with X framework/language. Then I'll ask it to stub in whatever major features I know I'll want, maybe ask it for a handful of libraries.
Initial setup is all busy work.
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I’ve only used genAI once, to re-write my resume. (And I played with image generation to sort of see what it can do and be a muse for me because I’m aphantasic, but I was wiiiiiildly disappointed.)
It spit out something less good than what I fed into it, hallucinated a ton of skills and experience I don’t have, and it looked like AI slop when it was done. So a lose-lose.
Might be good for people who don’t know things or who can’t write for shit (so your average first year college student, IME) but..
honestly it’s garbage if you aren’t average or below already. So I’m not surprised it’s ruining people’s ability to function.Ai is a tool for dumb people (sorry. not sorry.) to land good jobs that dumb people shouldn’t hold or be hiring for, and that’s about it.
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Nah, I think they've started with the most important part - text, specifically search. There were search engines which, while still honest, gave you direct access to sources in exchange for your time. There were search engines already dishonest, but still giving you that, just distorted. This integrates what could be scraped for you, so you can be fed any flavor of opinions and you'll consume that.
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Thanks for that, also absolutely love your name.
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we're talking about genAI here not AI in general. let's not kid ourselves...
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This is The Patriots from Metal Gear Solid.
