Comment on Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills
venusaur@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The same could be said about people who search for answers anywhere on the internet, or even the world, and don’t have some level of skepticism about their sources of information.
It’s more like, not having critical thinking skills perpetuates a lack of critical thinking skills.
Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Yeah, if you repeated this test with the person having access to a stack exchange or not you’d see the same results. Not much difference between someone mindlessly copying an answer from stack overflow vs copying it from AI. Both lead to more homogeneous answers and lower critical thinking skills.
OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Copying isn’t the same as using your brain to form logical conclusions. Instead your taking someone else’s wild interpretation, research, study, and blindly copying it as fact. That lowers critical thinking because your not thinking at all. Bad information is always bad no matter how far it spreads. Incomplete info is no different.
venusaur@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’d agree that anybody who just takes the first answer offered them by any means as fact would have the same results as this study.