Mastodawn

cholling Jan 28, 2025

For years I've been hearing that "One day AI will be smarter than humans and we'll all be doomed."

"Nonsense," I said. "AI is very stupid, and not getting noticeably smarter." And I was right.

But I didn't think about the fact that there were two ways that prophecy could be fulfilled.

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Neil Moffatt

@cholling There should have been widespread alarm and corresponding action by decision makers with that snowballing of mental atrophy online and then with AI.

But too little too late seems to be. apolitical norm.

Professor friend (very approachable in coffee shop where I go!) says masters students frequently use AI for essays. So he now talks with them more to assess understanding. Most are petrified as social one-to-one skills also atrophied. Or simply not developed.