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AI for improved education is noble, but what's the point of learning when AIs are going to do everything better than us in a few years? I already struggle with

AI for improved education is noble, but what's the point of learning when AIs are going to do everything better than us in a few years? I already struggle with some intellectual laziness after subscribing to GPT4, which is fairly out of character for me. Why should I expend the mental energy on something when it can do the task for me? Now imagine GPT5, 6, and so on. People who "learn" are going to become a rarity.

ArekDymalski 3y ago
I wonder why this comment has been downvoted. IMHO it's a legitimate concern. We already see first symptoms of this incelectual laziness. People using navigation apps for the simplest routes and getting lost or even killed due to over-reliance. Programmers who replaced probem solving with Google/Stack Overflow searches. Polce officers using apps instead of critical and analytical thinking and simple leg-work. And so long ...
Turing_Machine 3y ago
Socrates: At the Egyptian city of Naucratis, there was a famous old god, whose name was Theuth; ... his great discovery was the use of letters ... This, said Theuth, will make the Egyptians wiser and give them better memories; it is a specific both for the memory and for the wit. Thamus replied: ... In this instance, you who are the father of letters, from a paternal love of your own children have been led to attribute to them a quality which they cannot have; for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing... _The Phaedrus_, Plato, circa 370 BC This conversation has been going on for a very long time. :-)

ArekDymalski 3y ago

I wonder why this comment has been downvoted. IMHO it's a legitimate concern. We already see first symptoms of this incelectual laziness. People using navigation apps for the simplest routes and getting lost or even killed due to over-reliance. Programmers who replaced probem solving with Google/Stack Overflow searches. Polce officers using apps instead of critical and analytical thinking and simple leg-work. And so long ...

Turing_Machine 3y ago

Socrates: At the Egyptian city of Naucratis, there was a famous old god, whose name was Theuth; ... his great discovery was the use of letters ... This, said Theuth, will make the Egyptians wiser and give them better memories; it is a specific both for the memory and for the wit. Thamus replied: ... In this instance, you who are the father of letters, from a paternal love of your own children have been led to attribute to them a quality which they cannot have; for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing... _The Phaedrus_, Plato, circa 370 BC This conversation has been going on for a very long time. :-)