I think ai is a great learning tool personally. I donāt think it stops critical thinking, i believe it enhances it. It knows so much stuff so itās like a search engine of knowledge.
The problem i was eluding to was the fact that ais are almost too good at certain things to the point you donāt really have to think about how to do something. You depend on some machine to do it for you.
We depend on machines all the time: like to do mathematical calculations (calculators, computers). we donāt do it on paper anymore. Itās slow, tedious, and error prone. if the tool is good enough and accurate most of the time, people will just use it instead of doing the more difficult thing.
I think whats happening is weāre offloading neural cycles to machines to give us more time to do things we want to do, the same way we offloaded physical work to machines in the industrial age (tractors, etc)
I understand that, but when people start just contracting out all the menial tasks to ai, over time that menial task is memory holed and lost. That necessarily isnāt that important as long as all the systems are still operating, but what if there is a hiccup in the system (power loss, programming error, etc.) and the menial skill was lostā¦ look at how dependent people are on the internet these days, there are dozens of tools in my house that depend on the internetā¦ even though they really donāt need to. If I have the graphics and the program to print and cut something with my Cricut on my computer, why does the program require the internet to allow my cricut to work. There are always going to be variables that the machine canāt handle and people need to be able to fall back to a tiny little insignificant skill at some point and I just donāt want us to lose those.
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But we did this before. How many times have we not known or remembered how to do something and turned to Google or one of the go-to websites to figure out how to do it? Itās just faster and more targeted to ask ChatGPT!
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