alt Hacker NewsPeople have always been bad at critical thinking, it's a high level cognitive skill that requires practice.
Now that it can be outsourced,we will slowly lose this ability that we barely had.
People have always been bad at critical thinking, it's a high level cognitive skill that requires practice.
Now that it can be outsourced,we will slowly lose this ability that we barely had.
Personally, I've done more critical thinking in the past 2 years than the rest of my life combined.
Early LLMs spit out easily identifiable nonsense. Now, it's much more subtle, but it's still absolutely everywhere, even with the best models.
You have to constantly be on your toes to detect it. Some people won't, but I suspect that's mostly the people who were never capable of critical thinking anyways. I'd say it's an upgrade if those people blindly trust an AI over some random person on the internet like they did previously.