Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.
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- WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.todayEnglish6 days
Hell, even before AI there were signs. Half the mechanics in our shop can’t diagnose shit unless there’s an error code shown when they plug in the computer.
- givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish6 days
It’s No Child Left Behind from Lil Bush…
They just stopped teaching critical thinking and empathy decades ago. People in their 30s and under were never taught critical thinking.
Even with video games, they grew up where a 5 second pause meant googling a walkthrough video. The Water Temple would have broken them.
- Million@lemmy.zipEnglish6 days
I googled the error code and it says you might have “network connectivity issues”
- Mirror Giraffe@piefed.socialEnglish6 days
Twenty-five years ago I drove taxi for a few years and during training they were very clear that relying on gps prohibits you from learning. Taxi people knew that.
For the last fifteen years I’ve been a software engineer and in this field, the ability to pick up and maintain knowledge are cornerstones of the job. Having someone do your tasks for you will degrade your abilities to get said tasks done. CS people knows that.
Management however thinks that we will not need those skills in the future.
- 6 days
From the future:
AI was the stealthy nail in the coffin. We’d already experienced a century of loss of knowledge. Basic things like animal husbandry, growing crops, mining, smelting, forging…programming. all the things that used to be done by brute human strength or knowledge were now done by computers and AI. But profit was king, out with the old knowledge, in with the new lack of it.
So when the calamity finally happened, nobody was left with any of the knowledge to rebuild.
- aesthelete@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
I think in five years — if the tools manage to stick around — finding coders that can work without AI assistance will be like finding skilled assembler developers.
EDIT: Yep I’m definitely a bot because I typed an em dash. You can be a bot too on Ubuntu by hitting control+shift+u and then typing 2014 (the last year of semi-sanity in US politics).
- givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish6 days
What?
Walley if anything, but I hate how fucking no one understands Idiocracy but other idiot always upvote any comment containing it.
- Strider@lemmy.worldEnglish6 days
I’ve watched thst movie at least 4 times and can pretty much cite it.
The beginning shows the downfall of humanity due to the wrong people reproducing, true. That’s not exactly to what’s going on here. Still it’s a parallel.
Were voluntarily externalizing and hence losing knowledge.
So whats your issue. That it’s not identical? Gatekeeping the understanding of Idiocracy, man. Get a grip.
- givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish6 days
Why the fuck would anyone answer your questions when you ask them like that?
Why wouldn’t the other person just give up on helping you understand it?
Like, you memorized some quotes to a movie you didn’t understand, congrats bro, that’s what a fucking chatbot can do. That’s the level you’re on, but you undoubtedly think of yourself as Not Sure.
- trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtfEnglish5 days
The amount of people blindly trusting a black box word predictor with actual life decisions is terrifying. I’m legit cutting people out of my life due to this shit rofl
- Atropos@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
Respect. Many opportunities these days for people to show us who they really are.
Also, excellent username.
- SabinStargem@lemmy.todayEnglish5 days
IMO, this is just the older generations thinking badly of the young. Be it rock n’ roll, D&D, internet, smartphones, or AI, the older generations will not understand the priorities, workflows, and conditions of their younger peers.
Opposing AI is like rejecting the bicycle, sickle, or calculator. The thing that people should contemplate isn’t whether to use AI, but rather how to use it. Do we want only wealthy elites to have access to AI, or should everyone be able to use it? Should we use AI to teach people, and if so, what subjects? How do we prevent people from falling into poverty? And so forth.
Outright rejection of AI is foolish, and simply means that the peoples who adapt to a world with AI, will come ahead of those who have isolated themselves.
- 6 days
You use a forklift to do things you physically can’t do. This is a bad analogy. Even if you never used a forklift at all you’d still likely not have the muscle capacity to lift 500+ lbs pallets all day. You certainly couldn’t just lift a tonne.
And you wouldn’t use a forklift to increase your muscle tone, or build muscle.
- 6 days
I think you’re missing the forest for the trees here because the point is, you’re capable of doing the task, just not doing it in the same amount of time as a computer.
You chose a poor analogy to explain your POV. I’m pointing out the flaw in it.
- 6 days
And I could manually relocate all the contents of a palette, too. Just not anywhere near as quickly and easily as I can with a forklift. The analogy is still apt.
- 6 days
Ok. Look at it the other way. The person who can lift the heavy thing may not be able to continue to lift the heavy thing if they use the forklift all the time and don’t ever train their muscles. Which is what the article is pointing out. Doing the task by hand re-enforces knowledge and skill. Over-reliance on a tool is a well known phenomenon.
- 6 days
And yet the person with the forklift is moving more stuff than the guy who did it by hand could manage. The “over” in “over-reliance” is a subjective value judgment and I just don’t agree.
I’m not seeing the problem here. Technology is developed specifically for this purpose, to remove unnecessary burden from humans and enhance their capabilities. There’s nothing noble about laboring unnecessarily hard to accomplish goals in a suboptimal manner. I could write programs in assembly language but instead I use high-level languages and compilers. Does that result in over-reliance on compilers?
John Henry died in the process of “beating” the steam hammer and then got replaced anyway. Nowadays it’d be considered foolish to do that work by hand.
- richmondez@lemdro.idEnglish6 days
Are we going to pay to go to a mental gymnasium where we complete coding and critical reasoning tasks manually to stave off the atrophy?
