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and they kinda have a point, really. people got worse at memorizing stuff by heart when writing was invented, and people got worse at mental calculus when calculators when invented.
but they allowed many things that were simply not possible. a calculation that takes me 2 minutes in wolfram alpha could take hours if not days to solve by hand!
ai, meanwhile, or at least the ai we’re sold, does not offer significant advantages (at best it saves a few minutes), at the cost of making us worse at thinking, a skill that is absolutely essential to have… and of course, that’s the point. the tech oligarchs want us to be dependent on their extremely expensive products.
That may be true, but that is a much more limited problem, than losing some of our ability for critical thinking and problem solving in general.
This is very true, the AI are shown to even hallucinate, and give incorrect and harmful solutions. A calculator does NOT do that.
So not only is the AI a danger to our critical thinking, we actually need it MORE when using AI.
A calculator will do that if you don’t know how to input correctly, and i promise you, plenty of people don’t know the rules of simple math.
But they're using the hell out of it, too, right? They're exactly the types of people that love and use it the most: managers and owners.