alt Hacker NewsAI killed curiosity. At least Google made you search and look at alternatives, AI just gives you solutions, whether right or wrong.
In a few years, the cognitive decline will be obvious.
The only people who remain curious are the people who actively want to, despite AI, and most of the time against it.
Our ability to keep digging into things is entirely tied to the will of the people controlling AI to let us do so. Knowledge used to be power; now knowledge is money and they won't let us have it for much longer.
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AI enables curious people to explore. Why do you say it kills curiosity? If anything, it's so recognizable with output I'd say it kills creativity.
in few years the filters they will implent to AI models will be insane too. right now it only blocks bad content. future will be limitef for info
Google killed curiosity. At least libraries made you search and read alternatives. Google just gives you solutions, whether right or wrong.
> AI killed curiosity.
Only if you let yours be killed.
There will always be a demand for high-value signal, even though it might not be as easy to find anymore. But then again, has it ever been?
> Our ability to keep digging into things is entirely tied to the will of the people controlling AI to let us do so.
I have sympathy for that argument when it comes to locked bootloaders, closed-source software etc., but with AI? How? Is the existence of ChatGPT and Claude somehow preventing you personally from reading a book or looking at source code?
I do see big problems around motivation of the next generation of engineers to keep looking under the hood if avoiding it is becoming so easy, but you should, individually, arguably feel more enabled to do so than ever.