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People's minds will become even lazier due to prolonged daily use of LLMs. They literally won't be able to think for themselves without AI assistance (that's wh
by tomwojcik 9mo ago
People's minds will become even lazier due to prolonged daily use of LLMs. They literally won't be able to think for themselves without AI assistance (that's why OpenAI won't fall, btw). Attention spans will drop even lower, causing severe psychological problems. Think 'Digital Dementia 2.0.'
Later, LLMs will be portrayed as something evil, yet everyone will still use them. Parents will use them, while telling their kinds not to do so.
Leetcode is already standard for SWE interviews, but other industries will need to adopt similar tests to verify that an applicant's brain is functioning correctly and that they're capable of doing the job. Maybe a formal confirmation from a psychologist specializing in 'fried brains' will be required.
- sosodev 9mo agoYou do know this reads the same as every pessimistic commentary on technology ever, right? So many people were convinced that television was going to fry our brains.
- serf 9mo ago... do you know it didn't? I'm not sure myself. I do know that television feels about as deep as a puddle for me. Literature a bit less so. I suspect there is something to this.
- eucryphia 9mo agoI regret watching too much television as a kid. Fortunately my mother wouldn’t allow us to play indoors on the weekends unless it was raining.
- g8oz 9mo agoI assure you that it did fry many brains.
- jf22 9mo agoBut what was the impact? Society has made tremendous progress since the invention of TV.
- nearlyepic 9mo ago...you're saying that 24/7 news channels didn't do that?
- johnsmith1840 9mo agoI don't get this take. My knowledge and engineering has only gone up over time. I read significantly more and higher quality technical information and need to debug problems significantly harder. I think AI will in general make everyone a lot smarter. Maybe the people who use AI as a companion will melt? I'm sure there's some kind of repetitive addiction loop that could melt your brain just like anythibg else though.
- Sammi 9mo agoIt's like saying in the 1970s that people would become dumber because of calculators. It's a tool. You can use it lazily and not learn much, or you use it actively as something that propels you further along in your learning.
- y0eswddl 9mo agono, its not - with calculators, it was up to the person using the tool to figure out which formula to use and which values to plug into the calculator. The human has to have enough understanding of the problem to know which math to apply and calculate in the first place. That requires understanding and discernment. This works the brain. This mental work strengthens our problem solving ability. Whereas with AI, you just tell it the problem and it gives an easy answer. Thus involving no further work from the human brain which causes it to atrophy just like any other underused muscle.
- shagmin 9mo agoWhat atrophies with calculator usage is an ability to do long form division for example, or arithmetic operations with large numbers in your head for example. The way you describe AI - tell it the problem and get an easy answer sounds identical to anecdotal complaints I've heard like Google search providing an answer to everything means no one has to learn anything, or everyone copying code from stack overflow articles. At the end of the day it's still another tool with pros and cons, tradeoffs, etc., and will be used and misused and abused by different people in different ways.
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