Comment on Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 week agoThe majority of grammar rules are arbitrary and unrelated to the expression of an idea. For example, does it really matter if you treat an inanimate object like a pencil as feminine or masculine? It’s an object. Yet in Spanish/French/etc., there are grammar rules that define every inanimate object as being either feminine or masculine.
However, without a common grammar, it’s impossible to communicate accurately. For that use case, AI functions as a language translator.
zeca@lemmy.eco.br 1 week ago
yes, its very arbitrary, but these are sets of rules that you can use to structure your thoughts. language helps us reason. it doesnt matter that it is arbitrary. definitions in mathematics are very arbitrary, but they are a foundation we can lean on to reason about abstract ideas. Being arbitrary is not a testament of uselessness. Different languages, lead to different foundations for structuring ideas. But dominating at least one of those foundations can be very important cognitively.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Gendering an explicitly non gendered inanimate object helps structure your thoughts?
I’d argue that following those grammar rules damages your thoughts.
zeca@lemmy.eco.br 1 week ago
what do you mean by “explicitly non gendered”?
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Why is a pencil masculine? It’s a pencil, not a person.