Comment on A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroom
jpreston2005@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I gotta be honest. Whenever I find out that someone uses any of these LLMs, or Ai chatbots, hell even Alexa or Siri, my respect for them instantly plummets. What these things are doing to our minds, is akin to how your diet and cooking habits change once you start utilizing doordash extensively.
I say this with full understanding that I’m coming off as just some luddite, but I don’t care. A tool is only as useful as it improves your life, and off-loading critical thinking does not improve your life. It actively harms your brains higher functions, making you a much easier target for propaganda and conspiratorial thinking. Letting children use this is exponentially worse than letting them use social media, and we all know how devastating the effects of that are… This would be catastrophically worse.
But hey, good thing we dismantled the department of education! Wouldn’t want kids to be educated! just make sure they know how to write a good ai prompt, because that will be so fucking useful.
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That sounds like a form of prejudice. I mean even Siri and Alexa? I don’t use them for different reaons… but a lot of people use them as voice activated controls for lights, music, and such. I can’t see how they are different from the clapper. As for the llms… they don’t do any critical thinking, so noone is offloading thier critical thinking to them. If anything, using them requires more critical thinking because everyone who has ever used them knows how often they are flat out wrong.
jpreston2005@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
voice activated light switches that constantly spy on you, harvesting your data for 3rd parties?
Claiming that using ai requires more critical thinking than not is a wild take, bro. Gonna have to disagree with all of what you said hard.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
and recording your conversations, even when your not even asking alexa to do anything.
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
You hit on why I don’t use them. But some people don’t care about that for a variety of reasons. Doesn’t make them less than.
Anyone who tries to use AI and not apply critical thinking fails at thier task because AI is just wrong often. So they either stop using it, or they apply critical thinking to figure out when the results are usable. But we don’t have to agree on that.
jpreston2005@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t think using an inaccurate tool gives you extra insight into anything. If I asked you to measure the size of objects around your house, and gave you a tape measure that was not correctly metered, would that make you better at measuring things? We learn by asking questions and getting answers. If the answers given are wrong, then you haven’t learned anything. It, in fact, makes you dumber.
People who rely on ai are dumber, because using the tool makes them dumber. QED?
BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
If AI has a significant amount of incapabilities and is often wrong (which it definitely is), wouldn’t it take more critical thinking to determine when it’s done something wrong?
jpreston2005@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If I were to give you a calculator that was programmed to give the wrong answers, would that be a useful tool? Would you be better off for having used it?