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Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills (gizmodo.com)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Idk man. I just used it the other day for recalling some regex syntax and it was a bit helpful. However, if you use it to help you generate the regex prompt, it won't do that successfully. However, it can break down the regex and explain it to you.

Ofc you all can say "just read the damn manual", sure I could do that too, but asking an generative a.i to explain a script can also be as effective.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

yes, exactly. You lose your critical thinking skills

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University found that the more humans lean on AI tools to complete their tasks, the less critical thinking they do, making it more difficult to call upon the skills when they are needed.

It's one thing to try to do and then ask for help (as you did), it's another to just ask it to "do x" without thought or effort which is what the study is about.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

So the study just checks how many people not yet learned how to properly use GenAI

I think there exists a curve from not trusting to overtrusting than back to not blindly trusting outputs (because you suffered consequences from blindly trusting)

And there will always be people blindly trusting bullshit, we have that longer than genAI. We have enough populists proving that you can tell many people just anything and they believe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

what got regex to do with critical thinking?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hey, just letting you know getting the answers you want after getting a whole lot of answers you dont want is pretty much how everyone learns.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

People generally don't learn from an unreliable teacher.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Literally everyone learns from unreliable teachers, the question is just how reliable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I'd rather learn from slightly unreliable teachers than teachers who belittle me for asking questions.