In addition to making people stupid, I wonder what affect will LLMs like Claude will have on programmers? How will new programmers learn if companies start using Claude?

  • BaroqueInMind@piefed.social
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    12 hours ago

    If any of you actually read the article, they only tested 54 college students with writing a fucking essay. This is also undergoing a limited peer review.

    Ultimately tells you no results that reflect reality, and only provides justification for certain people’s feelings who were anti-AI already

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      4 hours ago

      The study might not be through, but it is pretty obvious if you don’t use your brain your are going to lose your skills. Even without the study this should be obvious, the more you practice your skill the better you get if you rely on Chatgpt you will not get better and might get worse.

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      11 hours ago

      The sun still rose every day before we knew the planet spins…

      Tobacco still caused cancer before the studies came out…

      If you’ve studied biopsychology, you know what happens to any offloading of a cognitive function.

      That it’s being handed off specifically to AI, just doesn’t matter in the slightest. Because the offloading itself is what causes the atrophy.

      The issue here, is what is being offloaded is critical thinking…

      Which makes it incredibly difficult to explain what is happening to someone who is experiencing it, somewhat like Alzheimer’s.

      People reliant on chatbots to do their critical thinking, simply don’t have the critical thinking to understand the problem. The only way to get them out of it, is making them go cold turkey like with drugs. And eventually the brain will begrudgingly start doing critical thinking again, but it’s gonna take a while, because offloading cognitive tasks from the conscious mind is literally why humans are the dominant species.

      It’s why it takes so little time for people to become reliant on it.