alt Hacker NewsThe average person has no idea this is true. And the average person cannot tell when this is the case. So we have a bunch of people, going their way through school, and then when they get stuck relying on AI. The future is gonna be wild.
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Here's technical literacy of population on display. I love these prank examples which show the true education of populace.
I am asking a lot here, but school needs to be training people what AI is and what it's weaknesses are and how to use it... My school taught me to use a calculator. It also taught me how to check my work when I relied on the calculator.
AI is a very complicated calculator - you give it an input, magic happens, it gives you an output. Really no different, to a layman.
If you're looking for a citation about this, the 1999 Dunning-Kurger paper "Unskilled and unaware" [1] is about this.
People who are unskilled at a task are unaware of what that task performed correctly is. So, somebody who can't count calories is unable to tell that the AI can't perform the task correctly either.
Yep. And it doesn't help that the people selling AI products act as if they're going to build God. Going, "well AI can't do that" isn't going to fly when you are lax about communicating its limitations!