It depends on what you’re doing. I deal with lots of data entry and when there are corrections to be made, I had to scour through troves of information which could also cause data entry error when i am going through with it. In other words, it’s “secretary work”. AI had been helpful on that front to minimise the tedious work that does not add value or improve productivity.
AI is only good at secretary work. But for tasks that require critical thinking and analysis and creativity, don’t rely on AI.
Man getting people to listen to me when I essentially talk about the same thing you brought up is impossible. It is great for these kinds of things but I just get shouted down by all of the “AI bad no matter what” people.
Surely if I offload work tasks onto someone else then I would achieve the same effect? I don’t think this is AI exclusive.
but ironically most of my time using AI is for “funny” stuff
Also, correlation does not equal causation. So the title is attributing AI to eroding your ability to persist, when in reality there was no prior test to ensure the individual could do the task at all. Which is almost like what they’re proving is that AI gives people the ability to do things they otherwise would not be able to do with out it.
Giving someone a tool to start and then taking the tool away mid task isn’t a good way to study the impact of the tool.
when in reality there was no prior test to ensure the individual could do the task at all
Why would such a test be needed? I presume the researchers did the reasonable thing and assigned the participants to the two groups randomly.
Ironically, the people that agree with the headline won’t bother to critically think about the study.
I don’t use LLMs (especially now during nosloptober), but I’m also trying to apply this to web searching. Like instead of doing a search for “how many minutes in a month” I’ll realise I have all the tools and information to figure it out and just do that.
Or checking with a local manual before searching online
I remember the times before search engines. I used to have to wait for the weekends and walk 40 minutes to the library to look stuff up if I had questions. I remember how I even though encyclopedia britannica being available online was revolutionary and I spent hours reading just because I finally had access from home. It felt like it wouldn’t always be there, so I tried to read as much as possible so I would just know stuff. I’m kinda nostalgic for it and where I live now, the library is only a few blocks away. You’ve inspired me to try to recreate that a bit.
You’re offloading your thought to an LLM there is no way you don’t come out a bit dumber.
I’ve been using LLMs with a project that I simply don’t have enough time for. I’ve built the core of it during most of last year. And in the past 6 months or so I’ve been using LLMs to help me out with some of the more tedious stuff. Half the time it doesn’t quite get it right, and some of that time it’s just flat out wrong. It’s usually when I get the LLM to try to hunt down some bug or something. After a couple tries, I give up on the LLM and figure out the problem myself.
I genuinely don’t believe this “offloading your thoughts to an LLM” idea is universal. For someone still in school and learning? Probably 100% true. But for someone established in a skill, I don’t think it’s true, at least not entirely.
It is so sad that people always look for shorter means to a problem solution, I understand it is coded in our DNA to exhaust the least but over the long term it looks increasingly worrying.
dont need a new study, 1 study already said people using AI during HS or COllege makes them inability perform at thier grade education level.
Can you shorten your sentence please, oh wait, I’ll copy it to AI.
Yeah, but reproducible results is a hallmark of a scientific peer review
‘a study’
Yeah. People study shit like this.
Gonna ask your friend Claude how to feel about it?
wow you have anger issues.
Naw I just look down on people who would so willingly shed their agency to a fucking machine build by sociopaths.
you also make elementary assumptions and project them on strangers over the internet in a petulant manner.
How ironic is it that you couldn’t be assed to click one link and read two paragraphs to find said study?
ya i mean a single study doesn’t mean anything, these result need to be vetted and replicated.
ITS CALLED SCIENCE
so until that happens your moronic opinions dont really matter.
stop spamming my inbox.
blocked.
lol, I hope he gets to touch some grass one day.
Depends if you outsource your thinking or if you use it as a tool.
This is a human problem, not an AI problem.
Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things
Did Claude give you erectile dysfunction?
I used AI one time to find out what time it was in LA… now I can’t tell time
That’s not tr
I was going to argue against this, but i don’t feel like doing the research myself.
As someone who has a disorder and is prone to hyper fixation, this isn’t a concern. The largest issue is that AI often claims they know how to do something, and it’ll get you about 80% the way there.
The at the 80% mark, it admits the thing you’re doing can’t be done with the software or tool it recommended.
