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Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared” “[A] key irony of automation is that by mechanising routine tasks and leaving excepti
by greybox 2y ago
Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”
“[A] key irony of automation is that by mechanising routine tasks and leaving exception-handling to the human user, you deprive the user of the routine opportunities to practice their judgement and strengthen their cognitive musculature, leaving them atrophied and unprepared when the exceptions do arise,” the researchers wrote.
- nukem222 2y agoCertainly a common enough concern in people critiquing use of ChatGPT here. I'm more worried about "softer" problems, though—morality, values, persuasion, including deciding which of two arguments is more convincing and why. But these have always been issues that humans commonly struggle with so idk.
- jldugger 2y agoWell, that's just a summary of a much, much older paper. Still a relevant paper, but somewhat disingenuous to attribute it to MS researchers. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironies_of_Automation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironies_of_Automation