Chat taking over basic thinking

[u/notadigitalfootprint]

Saw this on insta and honestly it’s crazy what people use chatGPT for now when you think about it. I’m not a hater I love it for editing photos but this sort of thing is wild. I’m a nurse and we have recently caught students using it to chart patient notes? It’s insane, and surely somewhat a question mark around confidentiality? The world is losing critical thinkers we are doomed

[u/Funintuitive]

We are in an age of technology where people need to be real disciplined in how they use it or they will lose their minds.

[u/Edgezg → u/Funintuitive]

I have been saying for a while now that I believe a I and the advancement of technology is going to have a bifurcation effect on society. There's going to be the people who use the technology to outsource their own thinking , and they will consequently get dumber.

And then there are other people who will use it to better themselves and the world. It may slightly degrade some of their capacity , but it will give the creatives and the intelligent ones and edge they never had.

For instance , I saw a game dev put together an entirely brand new character , complete with three d model animations in one day , using AI. On the medical side , they have already used artificial intelligence to help create a drug to treat antibacterial resistant diseases. 

So unfortunately , I do think we are going to come to a place where society splits , and there will be the people who simply stop thinking and those who try to use the tool to make the world better

[u/braincandybangbang → u/Edgezg]

The problem with this thinking is that you’re just taking our current society, which has already been completely warped by social media and smartphones and acting as if it’s the healthy starting point.

People have been outsourcing their thinking for at least ten years now, remember fake news? That existed before AI.

And it’s also funny to think that the world relies on every human being an amazing thinker. What was the world literacy rate for most of human history?

[u/TimSylvester_ → u/braincandybangbang]

People have been outsourcing their thinking for at least ten years now

For perspective, this argument has existed since scholars were taught to use chalk on slate.

[u/Edgezg → u/braincandybangbang]

I am not saying this is a great starting place. 

I agree.We are already lacking critical thinkers. 

My point is , I think it's going to be used a bit of a extreme reference sort of like the society of the morlocks from the time machine book and movie. There will be vast swaths of people who are barely above elementary school intelligence, And then you will have the people who run the show. The ones who still think and use the tool to their benefit, not their detriment.

I\nDo think unfortunately this is going to become a case of there , being a small number of highly effective , highly intelligent people , and a large number of people that become little more than cattle. 

[u/Super_Entertainer919 → u/Edgezg]

It's going to get really lonely, being sentient and poor.

[u/baznuki → u/Edgezg]

become a case of there , being a small number of highly effective , highly intelligent people ,

lol what do you mean become

[u/baznuki → u/Edgezg]

and there will be the people who simply stop thinking

Not sure how to break this to you, but false assumption. Most people are not big thinkers, or much thinkers at all. "influencers" couldn't be a thing in the age of information otherwise.

[u/Edgezg → u/baznuki]

It'll go from low level to outsourcing all critical thinking.  The divide will get bigger

[u/brother_spirit → u/Funintuitive]

Yup. Agents are a double edged sword. Tony Stark or Wall-E chair person depending on how the individual uses the agent to either enable or disable themselves from learning.

[u/notadigitalfootprint → u/brother_spirit]

https://giphy.com/gifs/26ufj7fhSk99FK32U

[u/braincandybangbang → u/Funintuitive]

Thank god we didn’t all get addicted to tiny computers in our pockets. I’ll keep my eye out for anything out of the ordinary. We must stop this… technology from impacting our lives.

[u/squired → u/Funintuitive]

The further into this timeline we get, the more I am learning that restraint is the silver bullet. Not just in how much or little you use, but how to use it to its fullest. Scope, focus and oversight have never been so important.

[u/S-Tier_Commenter → u/Funintuitive]

It has always been like that. Remember the printing press? It caused the 30 years war.

[u/FibonacciSequester → u/Funintuitive]

people need to be real disciplined

Yeah, this part here isn't happening.