You might think using a chatbot to think for you just makes you dumber — or that chatbots are especially favored by people who never liked thinking in the first place. It turns out the bot users re…
  • jaschop@awful.systemsEnglish
    25·
    11 days ago

    While browsing the references of the paper, I found such a perfect evisceration of GenAI.

    We have confused what we can write down with what we usefully know and compounded the error by supposing that because computers can help us write down more they can obviously help us know more.

    The marks are on the knowledge worker - Kidd, Alison

    That’s from 1994 folks, they were talking about the wonder of relational databases.

    • bitofhope@awful.systemsEnglish
      6·
      10 days ago

      Big Data was never exactly my fave, but I still liked them better than Genai after he went solo. Some people just never learn that it’s never about the size, but how you use it.

      Whoops, I dropped my monster Hadoop that I use for my magnum datalake.

  • remotelove@lemmy.caEnglish
    20·
    12 days ago

    Qualitatively, GenAI shifts the nature of critical thinking toward information verification, response integration, and task stewardship.

    Information verification is super important and probably just as important as raw critical thinking. However, when a person is stuck only validating shit output from genai, I could see that as a negative.

    • 3dmvr@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      11 days ago

      I get forced to do more critical thinking than I want to faster than I normally would, since im getting the fast responses, its tiring, if I do something myself I go at my own pace, with ai theres always more stuff to check and do and think about, so I burn out