• gamer@lemm.ee
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    11 hours ago

    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?

    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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      10 hours ago

      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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        9 hours ago

        Do people cry when they step on ant?

        Do rich people care when they kill little people?

        Why would AI side with the ants or the little people lol

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      10 hours ago

      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.