the title is a hyperbolic but the research makes sense. but for those who do not contain the gene needed for resding articles… they gave people a math test. one group had no assisstance the other had ai solve the problems and then take it away and the ai group had trouble finishing once the ai was gone.

i never thought people should use it to take the challenge away. i want ai to sweep thenfloor so i have time to build a new controller for my sprinkler system. i dont want ai to build the project so i can sweep floors.

I believe this but also, how many minutes of doomscrolling?

Use drugs, not ai. Just avoid the brown acid.

I believe it.

Horseshit.

Every ‘AI makes you dumb!’ article gives people a tool, and the tool works and makes things easier, and then they take the tool away and people are less keen on doing things the hard way. Like any fucking tool. Give people a multiplication quiz, and yank their calculator away halfway through, and they’ll be surly about longhand math. Give people a geography quiz, and yank their map away halfway through, and they’ll mostly wish you hadn’t done that. Humans offload mental effort to external tools! What a fucking surprise.

This gets dangerous when it’s like, ‘doctors who used AI got worse at detecting cancer,’ and step one is giving doctors an AI that makes them better at detecting cancer, and then you take that away and they’re slightly worse at eyeballing things. Zero popular focus on the first part.