Multiple Studies Now Suggest That AI Will Make Us Morons - eviltoast
    • Sckharshantallas@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Have you read The Time Machine book where the humans in the future were all morons and weak because we turned the world into a safe place that didn’t represent any challenge for us anymore?

      The author described them like gnomes just playing around with the intelligence of little children.

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        2 months ago

        Adding it to my list!

        TBH, tho, i have like a thousand more Discworld books to read first so it might be a while…

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    I use it to help me correct my grammar and punctuation. It’s great at fixing those problems. Other than that, it’s just been a fever dream

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      If you use the LLM by itself it’s nothing beyond a toy, but I like to have personal coding projects indexed in a way I can discuss things like suggestions on what to do next, looking for mistakes etc.

      Not everything you use LLMs for need accuracy, for example brainstorming is a very interesting activity for us humans, trying to see where your flaws in understanding a certain subject.

      To be honest, you could do that just by writing (hence why writing is such an important activity), but I think for the majority of people discussing a problem with an LLM is easier than staring at a blank piece of paper.

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    That’s why I limit my use of it to moronic activities, like replying to brain-dead customers who can’t read five lines of text. If I didn’t, I wouldn’t be able to restrain myself from insulting them, probably.

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      2 months ago

      Who knows, maybe in the long run LLMs will save humanity in this age of engagement based on anger that social media created.

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    Replace “using AI” with “managing undergrads” and all the experiments are obvious (yes, you can’t quote a paper you asked an undergrad to write) and all the headlines are insane (no, you are not a moron for asking an undergrad to write the report).