Day nine: are the younger generation, for want of a better word, cooked due to the rise of gen AI?
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Doug Lee
I'm guessing there's usually a cutoff point for each aging generation at which people divide over a new technology, where younger people master it and older people skip it. The resulting gap, I further guess, is more and more noticeable as time goes on, Moore's Law being part of why. But I also believe AI is the first time we have come close enough to infinite development speed to be able to see the event horizon from here. I finally believe that something will prevent us from fulfilling all the dooms-day predictions, which I believe already happened for the nuclear age. I just can't tell you what that will be or what it will look like.
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Dane Stange
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Doug Lee
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Dan 26
I think the key point is that studies are already finding that the use of large language models and other Chatbots has begun to impair critical thinking skills and other cognitive functions. It is actually blocking cognitive development, and I think this is the main point that needs to be foregrounded in conversations like this. You say that we will have to know the questions to ask but we already know that and we already do that when using normal search. Also, there seems to be a larger societal threat from so-called AI, because the owners of the technology are now saying they are going to lease it back to us for money. This means we won’t have the same access to world knowledge that we used to have.
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