Comment on Researchers surprised to find less-educated areas adopting AI writing tools faster
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 12 hours agoThere is published research that using AI makes people worse at critical thinking. It’s not gatekeeping, it’s a legitimate concern.
pebbles@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
I mean, books did make us worse at memorizing. I think its give and take. There are some things that are good to cognitively offload to an AI.
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I do agree that there are tasks that are good to offload to AI. I don’t believe that reading and writing should be. AI can be a great tool. Ironically, since you mentioned memorization, I can’t possibly retain 100% the information I’ve learned in career and so using LLMs to point to the correct documentation or to create some boilerplate has greatly improved my productivity.
I’ve used AI as a conversational tool to assist in finding legitimate information to answer search queries (not just accept its output at face value) and generating boilerplate code (and not just using it as another stack overflow and copying and paste the code it gives you without understanding). The challenge is that if we try to replace 100% of the task of communication or research or coding, you eventually lose those skills. And I worry for Jrs who are just building those skills but have totally relied on AI to do the work that’s supposed to teach them those skills.
BlindFrog@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
This is the way