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sadie's avatar

I don't see how a child is going to improve their thinking abilities if this is used. If it adapts to your brain waves the tendency will be for the brain to float along with minimal effort, no? The brain thrives on novelty and challenge. Without that, there won't be much ingenuity.... Ugh... I see nothing but zombies. Have they also messed with learning to play musical instruments? That might be a good foundation to fight from.

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Moriarty's avatar

The zombies part is already occurring via SARS-CoV-2, the AI is a compensatory mechanism that 90% of people are completely unaware of, as they are offloading their loss to AI, and compensating, you can see it everywhere, basically.

I do think AI tutoring has an incredible capacity to help people, make children learn faster by adapting to their learning styles, etc, but not like this. This is akin to "reward hacking" when AI find gaps to get the reward signal (AI making up stuff is a form of primitive reward hacking), but here the AI is hacking your brain.

I think any form of art is a good form to keep your "cognitive independence," but there must be other methods, not everyone has the right neural wiring to filter the algorithmic influence off.

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sadie's avatar

Compounding negatives at play... SARS added to AI... plus everything else they can think of. Meanwhile, studies show that creative hobbies and sports delay dementia... so in a crazy way, they're creating the equivalent of dementia in the young. Slower connection time for sure.

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Anomalous Anonymous's avatar

To my mind, there is something inherently wrong with ai. I don’t trust it, and using it to teach children? Nope. No good will come of it.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts Mr Moriarty! 🙏

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NatteringNaybob's avatar

Professor - Excellent sleuthing and keep on truckin. "this is a user-born problem, hardly possible to solve unless you solve the global mental health crisis." Indeed, after a decade of selective testing the "great social experiment" aka "the espresso and paxil for lunch bunch", involving non transient synaptic reprogramming agents was FDA benedicted in 1987. A violent uptick in mass shootings and "going postal" ensued. Remarkably in all this time post "Twinkie Defense", nary a question to or word of any perps prescription regimen. To paraphrase and update - "We’re developing a new citizenry, one that will be very selective about cereals & automobiles (add boutique pharmaceuticals) , but won’t be able to think.” - St. Rodman Edward

For reference: https://naybob.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-great-social-experiment.html

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Moriarty's avatar

AI is the best and most advanced neural reprogramming medium because it exploits our inherent advantage over all other species. Language.

I am not surprised by how far ahead you were.

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toolate's avatar

Socrates bemoaned the move to written language. And now?

We are diminishing our humanity rapidly . LLMs are a powerful tool to accelerate that.

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Rond's avatar

Definitely the most significant involvement of ChatGPT in a criminal investigation (thus far). I guess "ChatGPT logs" are the next "internet search history".

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Moriarty's avatar

Sadly, I don't think it will be the last, and yes, LLM logs are already somewhat the next search history, dependent what you ask Claude as an example, it will narc you to the government lol (even if the question is legitimate and not an actual crime).

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The Offsc℞ipt Pharmacist's avatar

Yes, the arts are going to be more important, imho. Anything using your hands to make something tangible. Gardening, painting, music, crafts, building things, going out in nature, etc

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Vita Sordida's avatar

Humanity is the virus. ai’s just the fever breakin.

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Jonathan Stotz's avatar

What is your current profession?

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