AI Use Appears to Have a “Boiling Frog” Effect on Human Cognition, New Study Warns
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Apparently it is very common on university campuses now. Things are moving fast.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-college-students-homogenized
To their credit: They at least understood early on how it's not actually about learning anything but all about getting the paperwork and certificates that open up entry to vastly better paying jobs. Clever!
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To their credit: They at least understood early on how it's not actually about learning anything but all about getting the paperwork and certificates that open up entry to vastly better paying jobs. Clever!
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TODO:
Learn to maintain the current appliances. Later versions my simply not work or arrive broken by design.
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TODO:
Learn to maintain the current appliances. Later versions my simply not work or arrive broken by design.Or just ticking time bombs insideously and unwittingly filled with slop both human and AI generated.
A favorite recent post...
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Or just ticking time bombs insideously and unwittingly filled with slop both human and AI generated.
A favorite recent post...
We shall talk about “artificial stupidity / insanity“ consistently from now on, refusing the implied sales pitch altogether.
Maybe using the correct attribution will fix it?
#AIslop -> #ArtificialStupidity / ArtificialInsanity / LazyLyingMachines
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We shall talk about “artificial stupidity / insanity“ consistently from now on, refusing the implied sales pitch altogether.
Maybe using the correct attribution will fix it?
#AIslop -> #ArtificialStupidity / ArtificialInsanity / LazyLyingMachines
@GNUmatic @mastodonmigration @metin
Stop hyping, name the danger. I have so many AI drunk colleagues and friends, that is what I am doing in conversations. I get hated but it’s worth it. -
Had a discussion here yesterday which sounded reasonable, until it became clear that half the points the other person was making were just wrong, and realized they were getting it all from asking an LLM for responses.
Turned out they had no knowledge of the subject at all and were confidently arguing nonsense.
All this strange sounding falsity is now being exchanged everywhere, all the time. It's so sad. We are raising a generation of nitwits.
@mastodonmigration Wow, a truly disturbing development.
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We shall talk about “artificial stupidity / insanity“ consistently from now on, refusing the implied sales pitch altogether.
Maybe using the correct attribution will fix it?
#AIslop -> #ArtificialStupidity / ArtificialInsanity / LazyLyingMachines
@GNUmatic @mastodonmigration Or Actual Incompetence.
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@GNUmatic @mastodonmigration Or Actual Incompetence.
We're slowly getting there! However we name it - let's just reject the implied sales pitches and simply call it what it actually is.
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@GNUmatic @mastodonmigration @metin
Stop hyping, name the danger. I have so many AI drunk colleagues and friends, that is what I am doing in conversations. I get hated but it’s worth it.@robertobottoni @GNUmatic @mastodonmigration I’ve recently added my thoughts about gen-AI to my homepage, here’s a screenshot of that part…
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unused things atrophy. True for skills, processes, things.
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@mastodonmigration Wow, a truly disturbing development.
Thanks for posting the article. We are going to look back on these early indicators of how damaging AI is to society and wish we had done more to protect ourselves.
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To their credit: They at least understood early on how it's not actually about learning anything but all about getting the paperwork and certificates that open up entry to vastly better paying jobs. Clever!
@GNUmatic @mastodonmigration @metin I ended up doing it wrong - learned a bunch of stuff, both on syllabus and through having access to the 90s Internet and alumni, my grades were awful except for a couple of subjects that I really engaged with. Only getting a desmond had zero impact on my career thankfully, probably wouldn't work as well now, but I was able to go straight into work, and while very green, within 6 months of working in industry had started to really get how things worked (aside from the complexities of BGP and some DNS which remained some sort of dark magic for another decade or so working in the industry)
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@robertobottoni @GNUmatic @mastodonmigration I’ve recently added my thoughts about gen-AI to my homepage, here’s a screenshot of that part…
Not much to add. Except there are of course more edge cases where a machine can actually provide meaningful clues - like inspecting parts for faults, marking those on images in order to aid with quality control of castings or welded surfaces like modern combustion engine cylinder surfaces where tiny faults might be easy to miss and quite a tedious job to thoroughly inspect in large numbers like we do in industrial production. Even with those, however, you still need skilled humans to tell if it's mere specs of dirt and dust or actual faults, though, so applications are very limited, indeed.
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Had a discussion here yesterday which sounded reasonable, until it became clear that half the points the other person was making were just wrong, and realized they were getting it all from asking an LLM for responses.
Turned out they had no knowledge of the subject at all and were confidently arguing nonsense.
All this strange sounding falsity is now being exchanged everywhere, all the time. It's so sad. We are raising a generation of nitwits.
@mastodonmigration @metin I went and looked it up. The long dash usages give it away
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@mastodonmigration @metin I went and looked it up. The long dash usages give it away
Yup, probably should have identified it sooner, and will be more alert in the future.
To be clear, the purpose here is not to call anyone out, who may have just been trying to engage on a subject they found interesting.
Rather it was to share an example that relates to the boiling pot thesis of the above article.
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Had a discussion here yesterday which sounded reasonable, until it became clear that half the points the other person was making were just wrong, and realized they were getting it all from asking an LLM for responses.
Turned out they had no knowledge of the subject at all and were confidently arguing nonsense.
All this strange sounding falsity is now being exchanged everywhere, all the time. It's so sad. We are raising a generation of nitwits.
@mastodonmigration @metin I mean, there were a lot of overconfident nitwits before LLM slop.
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@mastodonmigration @metin I mean, there were a lot of overconfident nitwits before LLM slop.
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@mastodonmigration @cascheranno I wonder if the increasing "AI" use will result in a rise of brain diseases such as dementia, due to a lack of mental exercise.
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@mastodonmigration @metin I mean, there were a lot of overconfident nitwits before LLM slop.
@mastodonmigration @metin they were just more obvious to those of us who took the time to learn (both facts and scientific method)
