ndr42Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them
My skills was forged in the other type of school, I know how to operate a lathe and milling machine but I don't think it's a good thing now and very dangerous too. The time dictates the skills. But understanding of the basic life/ physical principles was fired in me by my father, so I don't rely to school on that, it's the parent who is responsible.
Why would cognitive overload work better?
AI is a tool to help you see the forest from the trees.
You reading articles the old fashion way can be akin to seeing the trees but not seeing the actual forest.
Young minds tend to learn. How they do it, the old fashion way, the new AI way, they will learn.
Many blank out in school on different subjects and the cognitive overload byproduct follows them all their life making them wary of new things.
And finally, maybe you, personally, are reaching a limit in your comprehension of the modern world, and you show it by fighting the wrong battle with the wrong arguments.
Or maybe you are onto something.
i feel like people should be focusing on the damaging things that aren't just "ai" (like what he hell does that even mean, it's too broad?).
dark app patterns, gambling, etc. like seriously, i know we all want to hate on llms or whatever stealing our jobs or making us stupider but has this been any different from the past in that regard?
whether it be radio, tv, computer, internet, video games, etc. all of these claimed to be doing something "to the children" but i agree with another comment said kids will figure out a way to learn and utilize the tools given to them.
did me "offloading" my thinking to google or some computer instead of cracking open some library book or doing calculations by hand damage my thinking at the time? no... because a sufficiently motivated person will learn regardless, figure out why things work the way they do, and rather it's better access to said information that helps.
we should be fixing the motivation problem rather than the tools which we've been trying to do for decades. teach people the framework for solving problems and critical thinking. kids nowadays have way more things demanding their attention and it's been on a decline far before this AI wave (cough social media). we literally sound like old farts lol.
Books also cause loss of skills.
One effect of widespread books is we don’t have poets like Homer. We don’t develop the memorization skills like they did in the past.
And that’s ok.
We can use the bandwidth for other stuff.
It aligns with my experience and what I have seen. Looking at this through the lenses of writing software; much of "learning" to write software comes down to experience.
When you see an error like, "error: expected ‘,’ or ‘;’ before ‘include’" you know what happened and where to look because you've seen it a hundred times before.
AI takes that away. It's not inherently bad, it's great that it can solve those sort of things for you. However, the second order effects are terrible. You end up never developing that experience. Is this simply evolution of the craft? Is that experience no longer necessary?
I could be wrong, but I believe that experience is necessary and losing it will be a net negative. Furthermore, the reduction of experience will increase dependency on these tools and the companies that provide them.