What if AI doesn’t supplement and augment thought, but rather replaces it? From Charles Hugh Smith at oftwominds.com:
Given that AI is fundamentally incapable of performing the tasks required for authentic innovation, we’re de-learning how to innovate.
EDITOR’s NOTE: I just got called out by a programmer who uses AI who was furious and wrote “students cheat, always have, tell us something we don’t already know”. I responded: “did you read the MIT paper or the other link?” Of course he didn’t: TL/DR, which proves my point. Even the programmer admitted he has to check AI’s work.
The point here is *those who received real educations can use AI because they know enough to double-check it, but the kids using AI as a substitute for real learning will never develop this capacity.*
Those who actually have mastery can use AI and not realize the point I’m making isn’t that AI is useless, the point is it fatally undermines real learning and thinking.
The MIT paper is 206 pages long, the last section being the stats of the research, but the points it makes are truly important. So is the other article linked below.
That AI is turning those who use it into dummies is not only self-evident, it’s irrefutable. ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills, According to a New MIT Study
“Of the three groups, ChatGPT users had the lowest brain engagement and ‘consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.’ Over the course of several months, ChatGPT users got lazier with each subsequent essay, often resorting to copy-and-paste by the end of the study.
“The task was executed, and you could say that it was efficient and convenient,” Kosmyna says. “But as we show in the paper, you basically didn’t integrate any of it into your memory networks.”
AI breaks the connection between learning and completing an academic task. With AI, students can check the box–task completed, paper written and submitted–without learning anything.
EDU Long March comrades will be able to figure out which passages are Average Intelligence?
There are all kinds of queries with no response or a so GIGO answer that I LOL.
Or a CYA response for a topic that is too hot.