People started losing the ability to use language when the internet gave them communication with pictures.
I thought that was bad; but I suspect that as AI continues to develop, people are going to lose the ability to think at all.
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Marshall McLuhan has a lot to say about this. Technology advances to a point where its benefits actually start reversing into harms. We might be seeing that reversal now.
Yeah i guess it's kinda subtly the same thing. Interesting vid, though I only watched a bit.
What percentage only use search?
@Grok is this true?
I think this is a good take on AI and education/mind evolution.
Can you summarize? I don't want to watch the whole thing and I can't see what his main point is at a glance.
I have several responses: (1) i anticipated that :) (2) it doesn't address my point about AI because I myself use it as a tool in that way, what I'm thinking about in the OP goes way deeper in terms of changing human behavior and (3) just curious, but I guess it accesses a transcript on youtube or something? otherwise that'd be a bit much in terms of resources presumably.
Main takeaway for me is that it depends how we use it.
We could choose to use it to avoid thinking (this idea that we have 2 systems in our brains, a quick dumb side and a thoughtful side, and we often only use the thoughtful side when we have to.) -- effectively delegating more of our thinking to chatgpt and losing our practice of thinking for ourselves....
Or we could use it to challenge ourselves and explore our own thoughts.
Yes, true.
I think human nature is going to kick in and people will trust it more than themselves.
Also, current corporate AI is designed to hook into people emotionally.
Good point.
And I suspect memes incentivize fuzzy positions with their irony, so the focus of ideas is further diluted.
#AI will enable intelligent people to think more deeply and more critically than ever before. This will 100x their output.
#AI will enable dumber people to cheat and deceive more efficiently, which will only provide temporary relief because they are lazy and will ultimately be outcompeted by the driven.
The #Bitcoin Era is going to be ruthless to lazy bloodlines.
That's just stupid. Most people already don't think. Whether they can is irrelevant.
So we need to turn around and use AI against these people who have lost the ability to think.
I think it's still pretty early. But also not sure those people are the enemy ... it's just, normal people really.
Finding out who our friends and enemies are from random people on the internet is impossible, and I gave up years ago. Now AI will be a good "reverse Turing test" for humans.
I mainly think in pictures. I think being able to communicate without needing language may be the opposite of what you're fearing here.
Often I find myself thinking that many I interact with, myself included, have more to articulate but are unable. That's something that excites me.
welcome to 1984 !
I felt the same way when calculators replaced slide-rules. The art of rough estimation is dead.
We are the fruit of human civilization
@Grok does it make sense?
People will be lost in a digitally generated AI nirvana.