Not just young people.
its dumbing down everyone that relies on it.
⚡️💬 NEW - Niall Ferguson says giving students under 25 unfettered access to ChatGPT will just make them dumber.
He says the damage is already done: worse than smartphones, worse than COVID, in under 2.5 years.
“This is the worst thing to happen to the human brain, aside from very dangerous drugs, in my lifetime.”
https://blossom.primal.net/fad58ca7c618de73ca6ba61973a193eb2c2d036654b66d99444298917aaaad15.mov
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Sad..
I really enjoy using ChatGPT. I get a ton of what I call value out of it. Have yet to meet a friend or colleague who is now “dumbed down” from using it.
Compare your own intellect today with yourself before you started relying on AI to think for you.
Your comment is self contradictory. You're literally telling us how AI dumbed you down but you also don't believe it can dumb people down? Wut
Hmmm. Not sure where to take this in the spirit of genuine and curious dialogue. I probably need a bit more context about your own approach to using AI as well as some background on how you have formed your current understanding. Happy to extend the conversation and explore if you are interested. Always up for a sincere dialogue if on offer. That being said, my intellect (my ability to reason and arrive at an understanding logically and abstractly) has not changed, but the time to arrive at a solution, a clarification, an opposing argument, etc has been significantly reduced. AI has not added or taken away from me any specific cognitive skill. Rather, AI has crushed down a big part of the early enquiry cycle. I find that I arrive at a potential thesis to explore sooner than I did with a Google only approach.
What exactly do you mean by dumbing people down? Do you believe that it is a universal human experience as a result of any or all use of AI? Also, what types of AI?