AI Use Appears to Have a “Boiling Frog” Effect on Human Cognition, New Study Warns
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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…
Metin Seven 🎨 (@metin@graphics.social)
Attached: 1 image I've recently summed up my thoughts on generative "AI" on my homepage. Here's a screenshot of that section. #tech #technology #BigTech #IT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #ML #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AIAgent #AISlop #FuckAI #Fuck_AI #enshittification #microslop #microsoft #copilot #meta #google #NVIDIA #gemini #OpenAI #ChatGPT #anthropic #claude
Graphics.social (graphics.social)
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)
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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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