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It is weird he doesn’t think of AI as deep thinking tool at all. Sure some will thoughtlessly copy and paste but for many AI helps to structure their thoughts
by baxtr 2y ago
It is weird he doesn’t think of AI as deep thinking tool at all.
Sure some will thoughtlessly copy and paste but for many AI helps to structure their thoughts and they think clearer as a result.
- JonChesterfield 2y agoCan you expand on that? I can't see any sense in which an LLM improves the structure of the user's thought process
- Veen 2y agoIt's useful for ideation: suggesting ideas and concepts that you might not think of. A bit like a conceptual thesaurus. But it doesn't replace the hard work of thinking for yourself.
- Moru 2y agoIn the same way it can detour your thoughts to the mainstream and lead you away from a line of thought that might have ended up somewhere else.
- baxtr 2y agoHere are two examples: a) No / little data: Whenever you are starting to think about a subject, you can ask it to give you a structure / categories. b) Existing data: What I do very often is to give it a lot of "raw data" like unstructured thoughts or an unstructured article, then I ask him to find suitable top categories.
- moritzwarhier 2y agoa) Doesn't that mean to limit oneself to bias, mediocrity, and preconceived judgements instead of actually thinking?
- baxtr 2y agoWell it helps me to get started. Not more but also not less. For me it’s very important to emphasize that AI is a tool. You have to use it responsibly. But there is no reason not to use it.
- moritzwarhier 2y agoI see, I don't want to shame this kind of use. It's kind of almost like talking about something briefly with an educated person. Until it's not. I'm not the type who'd say "don't use AI". Use whatever works. Myself I became really fascinated by transformer LLMs / GPTs in winter 2019, then again when ChatGPT was published and a good few months after that. It's just that my interest&enthusiasm has almosted vanished by now. Surely it will reemerge at some point.
- auggierose 2y agoVery good point. I often use AI to see things from multiple points of view. It is a good tool to check if you have included obvious things in your argumentation. Spell checking is just one of those obvious things.
- safety1st 2y agoI think what he's getting at is that while you CAN use an AI to assist with "ideation," we will inevitably create new, low paying jobs where there is no ideation and the employee just operates an AI, because economics. That will in turn create a large cohort within society who are functionally illiterate. Literacy profoundly alters the brain for the better, and this won't happen to those people.