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Arkouda@lemmy.ca 1 month agoAI has numerous applications in the Sciences, and is incredibly useful and worthwhile when it is applied correctly.
The problem is the majority of people are uneducated or under-educated, so useful things like AI get turned into toys to appease Grown Babies.
Osan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
LLMs are also feeding into the current state of unwillingness to think of a lot of people. People seem to just want an answer to their questions instead of an explanation. People just want a short version of “the truth” handed to them instead of making the effort to learn, research, and think critically.
While I do believe in the usefulness of AI and the advantages it possesses, but I also think it’s very dangerous in the modern age of “information consumerism”. We should teach kids about AI but also encourage critical thinking and problem solving instead of depending on LLMs to solve our problems for us. At the end LLMs are just machines that guesses what the next word would be according to its training dataset and some sophisticated algorithms for logical “reasoning” and mathematical computions.