Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”
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Spoiler alert : it was just a survey of the reported confidence of folk who admitted to using AI.
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Also don't forget Europe in the 18th century and how reading was destroying the youth. German Wikipedia has a big ass entry on it.
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesesucht
The US Wikipedia entry is just a blurb.
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You don’t always have to know how it works to rely on it. Most people could not tell you how a computer works but they are able to do better work.
We can verify that it’s better in some tasks than people. E.g give doctors and the AI 1000 MRI scans of potential cancer patients and it can determine it more accurate than doctors. So there they already are a help.
It’s already used in advancing different fields, for example reading texts of ancient burned scrolls without opening the scroll since that would break them.
But also medicine creation etc.
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You don’t always have to know how it works to rely on it. Most people could not tell you how a computer works but they are able to do better work.
We can verify that it’s better in some tasks than people. E.g give doctors and the AI 1000 MRI scans of potential cancer patients and it can determine it more accurate than doctors. So there they already are a help.
I'd really prefer if my doctor knew why they say I have cancer!
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what do you mean by "explicitly non gendered"?
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Calculators made mental math obsolete. GPS apps made people forget how to navigate on their own.
Maybe those are good innovations or not. Arguments can be made both ways, I guess.
But if AI causes critical thinking skills to atrophy, I think it's hard to argue that that's a good thing for humanity. Maybe the end game is that AI achieves sentience and takes over the world, but is benevolent, and takes care of us like beloved pets (humans are AI's best friend). Is that good? Idk
Or maybe this isn't a real issue and the study is flawed, or more realistically, my interpretation of the study is wrong because I only read the headline of this article and not the study itself?
Who knows?
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Why is a pencil masculine? It's a pencil, not a person.
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It's developed by the worst of us and taught by a bunch of shit it read on reddit. You're thinking it might be benevolent?
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I perceive my advanced tools akin to a broom.
I can mop floors alright, but I also don't want to sit down with a cloth to do it.
If I can't do that myself, and it does that instead of me, that's not just my tool, that's my employee, and the one I now depend on.
'AI' companies sell us billions of hours of other people's labor to replace our own need to interject our experience and ingrain themselves into our routine. Like the coming of ads, it's already normalized. But this time, critical parts of our life has this black box dependancy and subscription.
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That would be nice but as the “proud owner of medical issues” it’s much more often: “You have this, we don’t know why you have it, this is how we can manage it”.
You still want your doctor to be knowledgeable of course, but you also want them to use the best tools at their disposal. Most of them probably couldn’t tell you how an mri machine works exactly either.
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Calculators made mental math obsolete
People love to pretend that. But it's still very important to have decent mental math as an assist to know when someone's bullshiting you.
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not everything in a language is helpful.
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GPS apps made people forget how to navigate on their own
Not really, tho. It makes it easier to get to places you're unfamiliar with easily. Maybe it makes the "becoming familiar" less important for the brain.
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Which was my point.
