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Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills

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  • J [email protected]

    It's such a double edged sword though, Google is a good example, I became a netizen at a very young age and learned how to properly search for information over time.

    Unfortunately the vast majority of the population over the last two decades have not put in that effort, and it shows lol.

    Fundamentally, I do not believe in arbitrarily deciding who can and can not have access to information though.

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    I completely agree - I personally love that there’s so many Open Source AI tools out there.

    The scary part is (similar to what we experienced with DeepSeek’s web interface) that its extremely easy for these corporations to manipulate, or censor information.

    I should have clarified my concern - I believe we need to revisit critical thinking as a society (whole other topic) and especially so when it comes to tools like this.

    Ensuring everyone using it, is aware of what it does, its flaws, how to process its output, and its potential for abuse. Similar to internet safety training for kids in the mid-2000s.

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      It's still wrong and it even has the information in its own chat to know it is wrong. It's literally contradicting itself.

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      ai does that doesnt make it less useful for factual information lol, you literally yourself said that its a question with no answer that is up to debate

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        It's still wrong and it even has the information in its own chat to know it is wrong. It's literally contradicting itself.

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        Use a tool wrong and its useless, use it correctly and save some time, or complain that it isnt perfect and cant do everything for you, idc either way, I used it, worked for me, I got good grades, graduated with my degree and still use ai when I need it time to time, never been an issue, if you expect it to be your guide to fiction, good luck

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          Asking what the heaviest anything is isn't subjective at all? Like, not even a tiny bit.

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          When it comes to pokemon it is, they can weigh in concepts

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          • R [email protected]

            Asking what the heaviest anything is isn't subjective at all? Like, not even a tiny bit.

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            Ais cooked it cant even figure out what the heaviest pokemon is, is there even a reliable factual source on that on the internet its not gonna yell you no or accept that there is no answe, it cant think itll give you an answer no matter what, thats how ai hallucination works, use the tool correctly for the correct things and it works fine, use it for pointless stuff and itll be pointless

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              ai does that doesnt make it less useful for factual information lol, you literally yourself said that its a question with no answer that is up to debate

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              It has an answer that isn't up for debate. It's celesteela and cosmoem. Both of them. They weigh the same.

              Saying one weighs more is just wrong.

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                Ais cooked it cant even figure out what the heaviest pokemon is, is there even a reliable factual source on that on the internet its not gonna yell you no or accept that there is no answe, it cant think itll give you an answer no matter what, thats how ai hallucination works, use the tool correctly for the correct things and it works fine, use it for pointless stuff and itll be pointless

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                The top link of the search was a bulbapedia list of every Pokemon ordered by weight. It's not like it couldn't have gotten it. It's a static list, the old answers won't change.

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                  I find this very offensive, wait until my chatgpt hears about this! It will have a witty comeback for you just you watch!

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                  • jackbydev@programming.devJ [email protected]

                    I'd rather learn from slightly unreliable teachers than teachers who belittle me for asking questions.

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                    No, obviously not. You don't actually learn if you get misinformation, it's actually the opposite of learning.
                    But thankfully you don't have to chose between those two options.

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                    • W [email protected]

                      Literally everyone learns from unreliable teachers, the question is just how reliable.

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                      You are being unnecessarily pedantic. "A person can be wrong therefore I will get my information from a random words generator" is exactly the attitude we need to avoid.
                      A teacher can be mistaken, yes. But when they start lying on purpose, they stop being a teacher. When they don't know the difference between the truth and a lie, they never were.

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                      • V [email protected]

                        yes, exactly. You lose your critical thinking skills

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                        As I was learning regex I was wondering why the * doesn't act like a wildcard and why I had to use .* instead. That doesn't make me lose my critical thinking skills. That was wondering what's wrong with the way I'm using this character.

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