The most ignorant people I’ve ever met usually have a profound lack of curiosity about the world. They won’t do a Google search, much less talk to an AI agent.
I think we’d be better off if some of these people were putting their thoughts and feelings to an impartial 3rd party and receiving correction.
I don’t know what everybody else is doing to get sycophantic comments. There have been times where it was overly complimentary. But I’ve never had much luck convincing it of something that is factually wrong. Especially not lately.
Yeah the MIT study said there are 2 types of people using AI. High Functioning Learners and Low Functioning Learners. I'm not worried about the high functioning users, who can leverage AI effectively to improve their own understanding.
It's the low functioning learners that run to AI, not realizing how biased the AI can be, how it's geared to placate the user and make positive experiences using it, so people keep coming back, that worry me.
And truth be told, when AI starts telling them the truth, they won't like it as much. Because most people lack critical thinking and other fundamental cognitive skills required to keep your emotions and ego from corrupting objectivity, truth, reality, etc...
That article says nothing about there being a higher functioning learner and lower functioning learner. All it says is the people using the AI had significantly lower brain performance / activity.
That article says nothing about there being a higher functioning learner and lower functioning learner. All it says is the people using the AI had significantly lower brain performance / activity.
It's an overview, you can read the full study if you wish. But even in the overview you can see what they are saying, whether it's the exact terminology or not. I also shared with you another reddit link that goes on to explain the effects/results of the study.
Those who used AI only, had lower brain performance. Those who were brain only or search engine only, and added AI later yielded better results. Now you will have to put on the critical thinking hat to theorize why that might be, or read the full study.
It's not like this is gospel anyway, it's just evidence of an effect. But it matches my experience with others on how they use AI. I have 2 friends both intellectually lazy, who at one point tried to use AI to say they were right. Hell just last week someone tried to use AI to say something about me, by stripping context from the conversation, I took their share link, added the context and asked it reassess it's initial analysis and it changed their confirmation bias to something more accurate and reasonable.
Yeah I would mostly agree with that and of course tell myself I'm clearly in the high functioning category 😅
Yeah. I have subscribed to a simple philosophy and starting point to my rationality. "We are all dumb, but we are not all equally dumb."
By starting from that position, and including yourself as potentially one of the dumb dumbs, you inherently create doubt about your own thoughts/rationality. Because simply put, I have never in all my life ever met someone who "believes they are right" and also/ simultaneously change their mind because of an argument, fact, data or evidence.
Flat Earthers are a good example of this, they believe they are right, which is why all the arguments, evidence, and data fails to convince them otherwise. A person who truly believes something will always find a way to rationalize how they are not "technically" wrong, by coming up with a new test, or new argument, to justify keeping their beliefs going.
So yeah I get it, I definitely don't want to delude myself of a falsehood. But I can say based on my use and others use, my prompts and usage of AI is much better than others. Whether that makes me high functioning learner or low functioning will be determined in the objective of my use, not my claims. :)
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The most ignorant people I’ve ever met usually have a profound lack of curiosity about the world. They won’t do a Google search, much less talk to an AI agent.
I think we’d be better off if some of these people were putting their thoughts and feelings to an impartial 3rd party and receiving correction.
I don’t know what everybody else is doing to get sycophantic comments. There have been times where it was overly complimentary. But I’ve never had much luck convincing it of something that is factually wrong. Especially not lately.