Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills
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It was hella useful for research in college and it made me think more because it kept giving me useful sources and telling me the context and where to find it, i still did the work and it actually took longer because I wouldnt commit to topics or keep adding more information. Just dont have it spit out your essay, it sucks at that, have it spit out topics and info on those topics with sources, then use that to build your work.
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Google used to be good, but this is far superior, I used bings chatgpt when I was in school idk whats good now (it only gave a paragraph max and included sources for each sentence)
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These guys. Greg the garlic farmer is their 4th wall breaking guy.
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I'm saying it is what it is.
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How did you manage to actually use bing gpt? I've tried like 20 times and it's wrong the majority of the time
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It worked for school stuff well, I always added "prioritize factual sources with .edu " or something like that. Specify that it is for a research paper and tell it to look for stuff how you would.
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To be fair, the web has become flooded with AI slop. Search engines have never been more useless. I've started using kagi and I'm trying to be more intentional about it but after a bit of searching it's often easier to just ask claude
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Only time I told it to be factual was looking at 4k laptops, it gave me 5 laptops, 4 marked as 4k, 0 of the 5 were actually 4k.
That was last year though so maybe it's improved by now
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Counterpoint - if you must rely on AI, you have to constantly exercise your critical thinking skills to parse through all its bullshit, or AI will eventually Darwin your ass when it tells you that bleach and ammonia make a lemon cleanser to die for.
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I wouldnt use it on current info like that only scraped data, like using it on history classes itll be useful, using it for sales right now definitely not
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Let me ask chatgpt what I think about this
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20 years? Do you know how much damage can be done in 20 years?
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Copilot told me you're wrong and that I can't play with you anymore.
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again not a usecase id use it for, its basically a better search engine that summarizes and skips through the ads and bs on the front page
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When all the hw answers sites put up paywalls, id get the steps to do the problem off chatgpt, id try to find it off google first, see the answer with paywall then try chatgpt.
