PatternChaser

" #AI is replacing tasks many people have grown reluctant to do themselves – thinking, writing, creating, analysing. But when we don’t use these skills, they can decline.

We also risk getting things very, very #wrong. #GenerativeAI works by predicting likely words from patterns trained on vast amounts of data. When you ask it to write an email or give advice, its responses sound logical. But it does not understand or know what is true."

#DontTrustAI #ThinkForYourself

https://theconversation.com/is-ai-hurting-your-ability-to-think-how-to-reclaim-your-brain-272834

Is AI hurting your ability to think? How to reclaim your brain

AI is replacing tasks we have grown reluctant to do ourselves – thinking, writing, creating, analysing.

The Conversation
Jan 23 at 12:01pmWeb
Show threadPatternChaserJan 23

"If your first instinct for every task is to ask an AI tool to give you a starting point, you are skipping the most vital part of thinking. This is the heavy lifting of structure, logic and sparking new ideas which excite us."

This is a description of how I spent my working life, as a (Software) Designer. That type of creativity doesn't come from an #AI, which can only copy what other humans have written in the past.