I guess we'll have to wait and see what the end result looks like but it would take something monumental to make me switch from the iPhone. Never mind the fact that iOS already has Siri builtin, even as a fan of LLM I very much like to keep it siloed for specific use cases and would never want any sort of AI managing my normal day to day routines.
At some point humans will have to weight out just how dumbed down we want to become as we succumb to this technology.
Have you read the article on
WIRED about the study on AI ?
From the article
"I recently met up with Bakker, who has chaotic hair and a wide grin, on MIT’s campus. Originally from the Netherlands, he previously worked at Google DeepMind in London. He told me that a
well-known essay on the way AI may disempower humans over time inspired him to think about how the technology could already be eroding people’s abilities. The essay makes for slightly bleak reading, because it suggests that disempowerment is inevitable. That said, perhaps figuring out how AI can help people develop their own mental capabilities should be part of how models are aligned with human values.
“It is fundamentally a cognitive question—about persistence, learning, and how people respond to difficulty,” Bakker tells me. “We wanted to take these broader concerns about long-term human-AI interaction and study them in a controlled experimental setting.”
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It is hard to believe that someone has to do a study to figure this out. My arithmetic skills went downhill when I started to use calculators, my spelling skills deteriorated because of spell checks. Using your mind for certain things is a skill, which needs to be reinforced. Athletes know this.
As a former educator, anything introduced that makes getting information easier and does the work for you is logically going to make you lazy physically and mentally. Critical thinking is an absolute must is teaching kids how to use AI or any research tool.
Students must be taught to ask questions, check sources for bias and accuracy, and be sure research found doesn't just have key words from our search, but is actually related to the topic of research. Based on accurate and validated sources, students should be able to ask follow up questions to get deeper into their topic.
It’s like insisting on using a square wheel before the round one is even finished. The wheel isn’t to blame, and neither is the axle. The blame sits with the people who hype‑sold the square wheel. And the ones who bought it.
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