Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use.
  • kitnaht@lemmy.worldEnglish
    261·
    3 months ago

    Jesus christ, I read this study when is was being titled “users who lack critical thinking more likely to trust AI”…and it’s morphed into this shit.

    Anyone ever play the game of telephone? This is like the 8th person down the line; and not at all what the study found. The wording has been ever so slightly tweaked to mean something entirely different. I highly recommend reading the actual report yourself.

  • fallowseed@lemmy.worldEnglish
    816·
    3 months ago

    i gotta believe similar conclusions were reached regarding calculators and a host of other technological developments.

      • fallowseed@lemmy.worldEnglish
        229·
        3 months ago

        my goodness, that language. maybe you should buy a thesaurus, it could be useful to help you along in your day to day.

          • fallowseed@lemmy.worldEnglish
            217·
            3 months ago

            you didn’t demonstrate, you just claimed it. if doing the math in your head makes you feel good about yourself, do it… the cashier has a calculator and a scanner to save them time, you’re not complaining about the lack of definition in their arms or their poor work ethic, i hope…

    • Arghblarg@lemmy.caEnglish
      101·
      3 months ago

      …but a properly functioning calculator doesn’t confidently state the square root of -1 is pi… all current AIs make shit up when they don’t actually find a factual answer, or parrot back wrong answers from whatever crap they trained on. Until the problems of recursive ingestion decay and lack of ability to introspect on the correctness or provenance of data is solved, they cannot be trusted and they give a false sense of confidence.

      • fallowseed@lemmy.worldEnglish
        417·
        3 months ago

        garbage in garbage out- if you ask good questions you get good answers, if you know how to use a calculator it can do wonderful things.

        edit: 8008135

        • porous_grey_matter@lemmy.mlEnglish
          4·
          3 months ago

          garbage in garbage out

          Yes

          if you ask good questions

          It’s way too late for that, the garbage already went in in the training stages, now you get garbage out

          • fallowseed@lemmy.worldEnglish
            110·
            3 months ago

            the training stages? you mean every piece of science, every novel, every reference material they could possibly feed into the model? somehow is rendered useless becauuuuuse??

            • porous_grey_matter@lemmy.mlEnglish
              2·
              3 months ago

              every piece of science, every novel, every reference material

              More like Facebook posts, ad copy and, yes, b-grade fiction

              • fallowseed@lemmy.worldEnglish
                29·
                3 months ago

                oh, well… then ai will surely fade into obscurity in the coming years- let’s wait and see.