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Common sense, really.

Same can be said for most all évolutions of technology replacing thinking. A line in the sand has to be drawn somewhere before we are too dumb to realize it. See: "Idiocracy"

RESISTANCE IS FUTILE

Heather A. Scott 🇨🇦 😎

nice.. :)

AI agents are programmed by humans and are not 100% autonomous. Numerous filters, settings, and system prompts are put in place to control their behavior and mitigate bias. Consequently, the probability of an AI using Marxist areas of knowledge is quite low—unless it is explicitly designed to do so.

I think article reference is a provocative, typical attention grabber that may even have been suggested or assessed by whatever AI agent(s) Gary uses. That being said, when I checked the Cramer article and reviewed it with Perplexity, it became clear that over reliance on ai processes without strong skeptical and critical analysis does tend to degrade cognitive capabilities. It would be much more useful to promote constructive discussion rather than social media ping pong.

Yeap, and we wonder why Scale AI sweatshop has a growing valuation...

I use it sparingly and have no noticed any decline in my thinking ability.

Joris L. One of the most important positive and constructive behaviors that both promotes self and the development of greater cognitive evolution is to maintain a vigilant and skeptical enagagement with any AI generated responses.

Ha ha ha ha - next is the alliance of spreadsheets, web pages, Teslas and autonimous haul trucks. Good one.

Eduard Stancu, you’ve hit the nail on the head. How the use of AI affects your brain depends on how one uses AI. They should do a similar study with calculator use. Anyone care to guess what the results would indicate?

Great

That is a contrived conclusion. If you give me an electric screwdriver, I will remove screws easier than the fellow without it - yet, when you give us both a regular screwdriver, I will have less practice, and will be more easily upset having had the electric screwdriver experience. So, electric screwdrivers affect intelligence?

Felt bad to see Elon's lost his hair, and telling people will lose their jobs

Using my brain for 10 minutes full tilt hurts too. 🤯😂

Two years ago I proposed to go luddite in year 1 and 2 of university (pen and paper only, exams, orals), and then in the 3d year introduce classes that try to develop an AI augmented pedagogy. Some of us are starting to use more and more AI so we are actually getting a lot of ideas on how to teach it. But the political economics and climate impact of AI and the privacy issues around its systematic usage in the university is a crucial barrier. I think we need local models, specifically designed for university learning, that are free, and designed to promote critical thinking and less cognitive offloading.

"The function creates the organ" - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. This is how we evolved. Remove the function and the organ disappears.

Well said

I really don't know how to feel about this. Is normalcy too much to ask for?!