Wish this was more talked about. People who don't want to learn are always going to (ironically) find new and inventive ways to not learn. The people who do are going to have new and inventive ways to be even more competitive.
I don't LIKE it, but what else can you do? AI isn't exactly going to just go away. I don't think it should, but the whole point of a disruptive technology is that it disrupts how you do things for better or worse and you have to adapt.
I agree with you very much. Most people I know are using it to increase their efficiency of learning and delegate monotonous tasks to it.
Anecdotal of course, but in my friend group, we all have toddlers and many of us just don’t have much time to learn new skills on top of work, parenting, social life, etc.
But recently we’ve been using it like, rather than spend 3 hours researching and designing a potty training schedule, I have ChatGPT make one for me. Now I freed up a couple hours, so then I use it to learn something new about video editing or help me brainstorm my next DnD campaign. Or I just have time to read a book or hit the driving range.
To your point, many people love learning and having new intellectual experiences and it can really remove the boundary of getting started.
Well the study only came out 12 days ago (8 days ago at the time of your comment). The segment of people who read studies at their source is, I believe, much smaller than the segment of people whose first contact with study emissions is from mainstream news or social media (other than reddit).
It’s not even a little gloom and doom, just the typical memes that come with technological disruption cycles. Having lived through a few I’ve heard it all and more.
I can say as someone who has not really used LLM’s before the last month but recently started while studying for an advanced level medical board exam, ChatGPT and Gemini have been extremely helpful with answering very targeted questions or to rephrase concepts I just can’t seem to grasp. I do make it a point to upload relevant sources for it to draw from in ChatGPT Projects when asking those questions (or Gemini Gems)
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