alt Hacker News> There is a study showing that doctors who use AI to help detect cancer become less skilled at detecting cancer without AI.
Not exactly an argument against using AI, is it? It's a bit like saying that GPS makes people worse at navigating by memory, which is true, but also not a strong argument for going back to paper maps. I feel the discourse is more about "stop using AI" and less about "how can we ensure our backup skills doesn't disappear".
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ThrowawayR2 • today at 1:47 PM
The people under GNSS jamming in war zones might disagree with you about the value of being able to read a map.
(And I'm unfortunately no longer as certain that "Well, that sort of thing can't happen where _I_ live." as I would have been a decade ago.)
We should keep some people around who can read paper maps (and keep paper maps around too). We need to keep doctors around who can keep working without a computer. It's a civilization threatening issue not to. There might be plenty reasons, from natural disasters, to self-inflicted "geopolitics", when we suddenly have to take a technological step back, and it's in our interest to maintain "30-50 years ago" level of tech possible, so that we don't have to start all over from something resembling a bronze age.