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These issues with AI are arising faster than ever, but no one seems to stop an extrapolate the inevitable end result. What do you do when an AI can realisticall
by oldstrangers 4y ago
These issues with AI are arising faster than ever, but no one seems to stop an extrapolate the inevitable end result. What do you do when an AI can realistically handle your average college student's entire course load? Existentially, does it even matter? Yes people will be dumber on average, but will they care if they have the answer to all of life's questions in their pockets?
I'm old enough to remember people telling me I wouldn't always have a calculator handy, and obviously that didn't age very well.
It sounds unnecessarily pessimistic in the face of all the things AI will help us with, but given what we know about human nature, I do expect AI to make us a lot lazier and ... dumber.
- Buldak 4y agoYeah, there seems to be a general sentiment that if a computer can do it, it wasn't worth a student doing it anyway. But presumably (?) there is a line to cross where that ceases to be the case. So where do you draw it?
- SV_BubbleTime 4y ago>I'm old enough to remember people telling me I wouldn't always have a calculator handy, and obviously that didn't age very well. Logical error though. The analogy to calculator is poor. With a calculator it doesn’t matter what your opinion of 17×93 is. There is a right answer and a way to get there. Our ability to get output from a calculator doesn’t change because more or less people use them. With AI prompted writing, there is no right answer, and what it spits out only exists because other people already wrote on the topic. The quality of the writing is entirely dependent on samples and usage.
- oldstrangers 4y agoThe analogy is fine, as it applies to my example of an AI handling the entire course load of your average college student. Math, science, creative writing, etc...