AI Use Appears to Have a “Boiling Frog” Effect on Human Cognition, New Study Warns
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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)
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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.
@mastodonmigration @metin I am thinking that maybe, in this case, it could also be someone using an AI based translator?
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AI Use Appears to Have a “Boiling Frog” Effect on Human Cognition, New Study Warns
"In a new study, researchers claim to provide the first causal evidence that leaning on AI to assist with “reasoning-intensive” cognitive labor — mental tasks ranging from writing to studying to coding to simply brainstorming new ideas — can rapidly impair users’ intellectual ability and willingness to persist despite difficulty."
AI Use Appears to Have a "Boiling Frog" Effect on Human Cognition, New Study Warns
A new study claims to offer the first causal link between AI dependency and cognitive erosion. Researchers warn of long-term implications.
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@metin I was a programmer for 45 years so at some point writing code became really easy, not really a cognitive strain. A machine that can create, test, modify and deploy software given plain language instructions is sort of the holy grail of business leaders since the beginning. I asked AI why it writes code, rather than just deploying native machine instructions, and it replied with lame 1980’s coding 101 manual reasons but one given was ‘so people can read it’. (1/2)
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@metin I was a programmer for 45 years so at some point writing code became really easy, not really a cognitive strain. A machine that can create, test, modify and deploy software given plain language instructions is sort of the holy grail of business leaders since the beginning. I asked AI why it writes code, rather than just deploying native machine instructions, and it replied with lame 1980’s coding 101 manual reasons but one given was ‘so people can read it’. (1/2)
So I see a day coming where AI churns out many millions of lines of code a day and human code readers will be in big demand. (2/2)
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So I see a day coming where AI churns out many millions of lines of code a day and human code readers will be in big demand. (2/2)
@Grovewest I think so too. There will be a revival of human insight and craft. Same for artwork.
On which systems did you start coding? I started programming on the Commodore 64, then became an Amiga game developer. Good ol' pre-internet times, sending and receiving disks by snail mail.
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@mastodonmigration @metin I am thinking that maybe, in this case, it could also be someone using an AI based translator?
Maybe, but don't think so, because the terminology is too consistent with corporate marketing literature.
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