AI Is Making Us Dumber – Unless We Fight Back

(baromae.blogspot.com)

11 points | by odilelof 11 hours ago ago

14 comments

  • atmavatar 9 hours ago ago

    It's a bit early for us to be contemplating our own Butlerian Jihad, but for posterity:

        We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a "dump program." We dump the things which destroy us as humans!
  • iugtmkbdfil834 11 hours ago ago

    It is fascinating how much of that blog post was clearly written by AI.

    • jgord 11 hours ago ago

      it does feel AI-written, sadly.

    • odilelof 10 hours ago ago

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  • odilelof 10 hours ago 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 10 hours ago 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.

  • jgord 10 hours ago ago

    Raises a good point .. in, oh, such a bad way.

    • jgord 10 hours ago 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 10 hours ago ago

        Yes, I completely agree, but there's one thing…

  • polalavik 11 hours ago ago

    warning - not really chill ads for work pop up on this blog

    • evnp 10 hours ago 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 10 hours ago ago

        that might be a good thing, on balance.

    • jgord 11 hours ago ago

      Have been using reader view more and more .. mainly due to font readability, I like sans.

      Ctrl-Alt-R in firefox

  • odilelof 11 hours ago ago

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