The Picard ManeuverOutsourcing your thinking to AI is a... choice.
realitistaTo be honest, for a lot of people this is a good decision. AI is already better at cognition and research than a fairly good chunk of the population. If they start thinking at a reasonable level with the help of AI, we all will benefit. Obviously Grok isn’t the best choice but still probably better than what a lot of them would come up with on their own.
Until ai companies decide / get pressured by politicians to push a certain agenda, and there is no critical thinking left for people to realize it.
I also worry about this. But people who give up their thinking to AI probably weren’t capable of critical thought to begin with.
AKA if you’re already bleeding, what does it change to get stabbed another time 🤷
As if things in life weren’t a gradient.
At the moment LLM’s will give them considerably better answers than conservative media, I’d count it a win. Maybe it won’t always be that way but it’s that way now.
I’m not sure this is true. In the case of chat bots, you to some extent drive the direction it will go. It is possible to get it into a conspiratorial mode just by the way you talk to it and it will reinforce that.
This is true. I’d actually really like to observe someone who lacked critical thinking using one. I have had them quote them to me, and they were less off base than usual., so antecdotally in my experience they do seem to help.
Most smart people that have used llms have reported that there is a constant desire to just stop thinking and let the llm do it. It is very easy to give in. Studies support this.
Yes this is more concerning. I wonder how it will play out. It’s a bit like using a calculator. It’s going to atrophy certain abilities like programming and research for a lot of people, but I suppose people will find other things to think about. Not many people are concerned about the fact that most people are lousy at working things out with a paper and pencil. The people who need to be able to do it still can. The people who are best at it will probably still be called on to do it to check the AI’s, do the things they can’t, and guide strategy.