AI Is Making Us Dumber – Unless We Fight Back

(baromae.blogspot.com)

9 points | by odilelof 50 minutes ago

6 comments

  • odilelof 23 minutes ago
    La source de mon article de réaction est greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/want_to_use_ai_to_improve_your_work_have_it_disagree_withyou
  • odilelof 26 minutes ago
    Please enable AdBlock for the ads; the source is at the end of the article, and it helped me structure my text, so yes and no—P.S., it's all here.
  • iugtmkbdfil834 37 minutes ago
    It is fascinating how much of that blog post was clearly written by AI.
    • jgord 36 minutes ago
      it does feel AI-written, sadly.
    • odilelof 28 minutes ago
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  • jgord 35 minutes ago
    Raises a good point .. in, oh, such a bad way.
    • jgord 28 minutes ago
      Pithy excerpt :

      > The fix isn't to abandon AI. The fix is to use it differently. To use it in a way that sharpens us instead of softening us. To use it in a way that makes us think harder, not less.

      maybe the fix is to _not_ use AI in your domain of expertise, or at all.

      or, the fix could be to use narrowly trained AI - as Roman Jampolsky argues. Rather than train an AGI / ASI on the whole of human experience on the internet, perhaps train the models for narrow use - on narrow focused domains like microbiology / nano-materials etc

      or the fix could be to make training AGI illegal - a regulated munition.

      That might be a way to avoid creating a new intelligent species, which is competing with humans for compute and other resources... while making us dumber via outsourcing all our thinking in the short term.

      • odilelof 25 minutes ago
        Yes, I completely agree, but there's one thing…
  • polalavik 39 minutes ago
    warning - not really chill ads for work pop up on this blog
    • evnp 34 minutes ago
      On mobile I see the blog momentarily, then the whole thing redirects to a sketchy looking url a la rm358.com, with a fulscreen video takeover. Fyi to author, I'd like to read but it's currently unusable
      • jgord 27 minutes ago
        that might be a good thing, on balance.
    • jgord 36 minutes ago
      Have been using reader view more and more .. mainly due to font readability, I like sans.

      Ctrl-Alt-R in firefox

  • odilelof 50 minutes ago
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