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

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• kitnaht@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Jesus christ, I read this study when is was being titled “users who lack critical thinking more likely to trust AI”…and it’s morphed into this shit.

  Anyone ever play the game of telephone? This is like the 8th person down the line; and not at all what the study found at all.

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  • Cris_Color@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Thank you for the additional context :)

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  • Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Stupid News Headline Makes Lector Cognition “Atrophied And Unprepared”.

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• fallowseed@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  i gotta believe similar conclusions were reached regarding calculators and a host of other technological developments.

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  • fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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  • Arghblarg@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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