Comment on Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”

fallowseed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  People don’t do everyday fucking math at the grocery store like they should because they don’t have the wherewithal to pull out the calculator for all the everyday things. People fucking can use a calculator to do math, but they choose not to unless they’re forced to. So the math just doesn’t get done. Now imagine what will happen a generation down the road when it’s not math that people have given up practicing, but general fucking thinking.

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  • fallowseed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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    • fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, I demonstrated that technological progress allows us to live our lives memorizing fewer words since they can be looked up so easily. But I wrote a substantive and original argument. Did you? Will it be even harder for you after ten years of letting machines do your writing and thinking for you?

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      • fallowseed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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…

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• Arghblarg@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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  • fallowseed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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    • porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨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

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    • Arghblarg@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Heh

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