Is #Artificial Intelligence making us stupid?

I hate to say it and I don't want to sound pessimistic (but it's probably happening already :D)...

with all the conveniences we have, we are so fast and unfortunately also comfortable.

Have you noticed that when using Chat GPT or AI you don't even bother to think anymore?

So I use it to get information and I think I'm learning something, but I don't know if I'm really learning anything when AI does everything for me.

It's like a modern calculator that gives you the result without you understanding the processes and structures behind the calculations.

Is AI making us stupid? How do you approach using AI so that you still can learn and "use" your brain more actively?

IMO this will be a huge thing for the next generations and kids because if they rely too much on AI, they can become either geniuses or very lazy and illiterate people.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/larsdaniel/2025/01/19/new-study-says-ai-is-making-us-stupid-but-does-it-have-to/

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New Study Says AI Is Making Us Stupid—But Does It Have To?

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Is #Artificial Intelligence making us stupid?  I hate to say it and I don't want to sound pessimistic (but it's probably happening already :D)...  with all the conveniences we have, we are so fast and unfortunately also comfortable.  Have you noticed that when using Chat GPT or AI you don't even bother to think anymore?  So I use it to get information and I think I'm learning something, but I don't know if I'm really learning anything when AI does everything for me.  It's like a modern calculator that gives you the result without you understanding the processes and structures behind the calculations.  Is AI making us stupid? How do you approach using AI so that you still can learn and "use" your brain more actively?  IMO this will be a huge thing for the next generations and kids because if they rely too much on AI, they can become either geniuses or very lazy and illiterate people.  https://www.forbes.com/sites/larsdaniel/2025/01/19/new-study-says-ai-is-making-us-stupid-but-does-it-have-to/   #ScholER

Cyril

IMO, we still should be tested in the real world to not have that "atrophy".

Speaking about forgetting about our skills – it is like that one scene from the movie Demolition Man when new cops in the future didn't know how to deal with the enemy guy from the past 😝

This is quite an interesting and complex question. Certainly with the use of AI we become as if more defenseless when it is not there, it is possible that with long term use in new generations that something atrophies in the head and they will not even be able to understand how to light a fire without prompting AI bots or as now many. information we can not find without Internet search engines. 

I suggest to consider AI as a logical continuation of a human being. Something like airplanes have become our wings, cars our new fast legs. When animals evolved in their natural essence of evolution, man evolved in a different sense, grew a mind that would eventually grow a new mind in the form of AI.

Although it's depressing that one solar flare could strip us of all this accumulated “evolutionary” process, huh.

This is quite an interesting and complex question. Certainly with the use of AI we become as if more defenseless when it is not there, it is possible that with long term use in new generations that something atrophies in the head and they will not even be able to understand how to light a fire without prompting AI bots or as now many. information we can not find without Internet search engines.   I suggest to consider AI as a logical continuation of a human being. Something like airplanes have become our wings, cars our new fast legs. When animals evolved in their natural essence of evolution, man evolved in a different sense, grew a mind that would eventually grow a new mind in the form of AI.  Although it's depressing that one solar flare could strip us of all this accumulated “evolutionary” process, huh.

Sam Mendoza

IMO, we still should be tested in the real world to not have that "atrophy".  Speaking about forgetting about our skills – it is like that one scene from the movie Demolition Man when new cops in the future didn't know how to deal with the enemy guy from the past 😝

Jerome Cody

We are so questionable, we are in the middle of the era, but what about those newcomers. It is a certain thing that many things will die and will be replaced with the different. Would be pretty interesting how our brain and perception will evolve. Now I have FOMO to see that biological change.

I dunno. My thinking is that we now operate more high level. While we can drill down in the nitty gritty 10x faster than before. And then zoom right back up to high level again. High level is nice IMO. You can do more. Do we want to go back to spending 2 weeks on the nitty gritty, learning useless things we will never do again? thats nostalgia. Nostalgia are for the romantics. 😈

Cici Zhao

@Tasia I know that game, and I have to admit I chuckled a bit while reading your comment, such a perfect comparison! 😂 It really does feel like a never-ending loop of slightly distorted information.

Bottom down. Idiocracy IRL

Tasia

It is a paradox, ChatGPT is copying from knowledge we gave it and now, we are trying to reproduce what ChatGPT said. It is like one game we used to play "telephone". At the end you will receive totally wrong answer. Maybe you know that game. So this is it :D

let’s be honest, AI is making us lazy. But maybe that’s not even the biggest issue. I notice it all the time, especially in younger people, ChatGPT gets used for literally everything. Need a text? ChatGPT. Homework? ChatGPT. Even people brainstorming business ideas just throw a prompt in and call it research. It’s wild.

The real danger? AI makes us feel smarter than we actually are. When ChatGPT explains something, we nod like we understood it, but if someone asked us to explain it back, we’d sound like a glitchy chatbot ourselves.

That’s what makes me curious about the future. Are we just outsourcing thinking? Or will AI force us to focus on higher-level creativity and problem-solving instead?

I guess we’ll see. But yeah, have you ever thought you "learned" something from AI, only to realize later you had no idea how it actually worked? Because same. 😅

let’s be honest, AI is making us lazy. But maybe that’s not even the biggest issue. I notice it all the time, especially in younger people, ChatGPT gets used for literally everything. Need a text? ChatGPT. Homework? ChatGPT. Even people brainstorming business ideas just throw a prompt in and call it research. It’s wild.  The real danger? AI makes us feel smarter than we actually are. When ChatGPT explains something, we nod like we understood it, but if someone asked us to explain it back, we’d sound like a glitchy chatbot ourselves.  That’s what makes me curious about the future. Are we just outsourcing thinking? Or will AI force us to focus on higher-level creativity and problem-solving instead?  I guess we’ll see. But yeah, have you ever thought you "learned" something from AI, only to realize later you had no idea how it actually worked? Because same. 😅

@Tasia I know that game, and I have to admit I chuckled a bit while reading your comment, such a perfect comparison! 😂 It really does feel like a never-ending loop of slightly distorted information.  Bottom down. Idiocracy IRL

Cyril

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