@drrachelbarr: Replying to @sophiaamcbride Why it’s unlikely that ChatGPT will diminish critical thinking skills 🧠 #neuroscience #Science #chatgpt #criticalthinking

Stylessnoun Opinionman :

Socrates thought writing would weaken our memory

glenn.with.one.n :

The first time I vehemently disagree, but I do appreciate the perspective.

Kofo Okesola :

I understand your point, and I’d appreciate your perspective on this thought…now, but if the rest of the our attention is then geared towards tasks that also reduce our brain’s ability to pay attention and observe patterns or perform any kind of analysis on its own (internet brain rot like social media), isn’t that the perfect cocktail for a massive reduction in critical thinking? So maybe ai alone won’t but if we had other things we focused on as a species it wouldn’t be so bad

sami salami :

It's not intelligence I'm worried about, it's creativity

Lini💌 :

“It’s not likely that this is going to be the one time we’re right about it” the introduction of GPS and Google maps significantly reduced people’s spatial navigation skills because they stopped using their cognitive skills and outsourced them to the Google map/ GPS…..

M A F :

I thought I understood manifestation until I read Money Override by Donald Black. It's like having a guide that knows all the secrets no one talks about.

Nathan :

unfortunately it cannot diminish a skill that is already absent in a lot of people 😔🙏

momitotot :

people are acting the same our parents did when the internet was created, and our ancestor when writing machines became a thing, and i could continue with examples. ia is a tool, like any other. 👍

Aspiiiiiii :

What is technofeudalism?

Tiktok_1357924680 :

The key is approaching AI as a collaborator— one that challenges and expands your thinking, not a substitute for doing it yourself.

Dan in real strife :

it's not the human condition I'm concerned with, it's the condition of the planet

Lady Lazarus :

As someone who teaches English college courses- I disagree. I don’t believe using AI automatically diminished critical thinking but students using it for everything means they aren’t actually engaging with material and learning new skills so there is definitely a negative consequence on thinking and skill.

tomskodex :

So what about MIT’s study showing that AI can reduce critical thinking skills by up to 30%?

yungsweatergod :

what about gpt induced psychosis?

Birdwatcher79 :

The entire teaching profession begs to differ. We are watching it in real time.

Tshepho :

I think you are challenging the MIT study on ChatGPT and the brain. I think there’s almost a sense of fear of (generative) AI capabilities. I’ve seen the calculator analogy critiqued, too. With time, maybe, there will be acceptance of AI. I like your perspective that we will use our brains differently (not less) because of AI. Thank you.

liz :

what about coding skills😭

V. :

Naturally, there is nuance. But “use it or lose it” still applies, and too many people are eager to actively avoid mental effort. The facilitation of this is what concerns me. People who don’t *want* to acquire critical thinking skills can now get away with genuinely never doing so.

Existential Yapper :

It ain't helping that's for sure

Humanrightsactivist123 :

To be fair this is much much different than other tech inventions

smartaipath :

We don't use our minds less we just use them differently 🔥🔥🔥

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perchanceamir :

nooo let’s not claim this bc this IS cognitive offloading onto technology which is proven to reduce critical thinking and attention skills. Reading and writing is very different from generative technology. Our brain responds completely different to tech.

INTEGRATE :

Finally! I've been saying that we keep having the same conversations whenever a new technology comes up, so the technology it not the issue. It irks me out when educated people repeat that rhetoric, it makes me feel like anti-ai conversations are not being genuine, because they are just parroting headlines or fear mongering, instead of listening to all the balanced conversations about AI.

Darrick :

The calculator diminishes general mental arithmetic skills, gps diminishes general navigation skills, and so on and so forth. The concern, which I think is warranted, is that GPT could diminish general critical thinking skills. In the former cases, one could say our critical thinking just adapted to use these new tools. With GPT though, we may be affecting a more general cognitive skill. Ultimately, the argument that something similar has happened before with new tech is just a weak inductive inference as there are certainly some unique elements to this.