I feel like it’s an unpopular take but people are like “I used chat gpt to write this email!” and I’m like you should be able to write email.
I think a lot of people are too excited to neglect core skills and let them atrophy. You should know how to communicate. It’s a skill that needs practice.
This is a reality as most people will abandon those skills, and many more will never learn them to begin with. I’m actually very worried about children who will grow up learning to communicate with AI and being dependent on it to effectively communicate with people and navigate the world, potentially needing AI as a communication assistant/translator.
AI is patient, always available, predicts desires and effectively assumes intent. If I type a sentence with spelling mistakes, chatgpt knows what I meant 99% of the time. This will mean children don’t need to spell or structure sentences correctly to effectively communicate with AI, which means they don’t need to think in a way other human being can understand, as long as an AI does. The more time kids spend with AI, the less developed their communication skills will be with people. GenZ and GenA already exhibit these issues without AI. Most people go experience this communicating across generations, as language and culture context changes. This will emphasize those differences to a problematic degree.
Kids will learn to communicate will people and with AI, but those two styles with be radically different. AI communication will be lazy, saying only enough for AI to understand. With communication history, which is inevitable tbh, and AI improving every day, it can develop a unique communication style for each child, what’s amounts to a personal language only the child and AI can understand. AI may learn to understand a child better than their parents do and make the child dependent on AI to effectively communicate, creating a corporate filter of communication between human being. The implications of this kind of dependency are terrifying. Your own kid talks to you through an AI translator, their teachers, friends, all their relationships could be impacted.
I have absolutely zero beleif that the private interests of these technology owners will benefit anyone other than themselves and at the expense of human freedom.
it’s the same with younger ppl today that have no idea how to navigate files and directories because an app with an interface does everything for them.
quite sad actually
I use it to communicate with my landlord sometimes. I can tell ChatGPT all the explicit shit exactly as I mean it and it’ll shower it and comb it all nice and pretty for me. It’s not an apology, but I guess my point is that some people deserve it.
You don’t think being able to communicate properly and control your language, even/especially for people you don’t like, is a skill you should probably have? It’s not that much more effort.
Because brains literally need exercise, and conversations with other real humans are the best kind it can get, so you’re literally speedrunning an increased potential of dementia and alzheimers with every fake email.
I think it is a good learning tool if you use it as such. I use it for help with google sheets functions (not my job or anything important, just something I’m doing), and while it rarely gets a working function out, it can set me on the right track with functions I didn’t even know existed.
We used to have web forums for that, and they worked pretty okay without the costs of LLMs
This is a little off topic but we really should, as a species, invest more heavily in public education. People should know how to read and follow instructions, like the docs that come with Google sheets.
When you can ask a specific question and get related information in the same amount of time opening the web page for documentation/“online resources” takes, why bother?
My brother used his during a board game yesterday when we encountered something we weren’t sure about rule-wise. The manual is 20-pages long and we hoped to short circuit things. It gave us a nice explanation, even formatted it into a table for ease of reading. The answer ended up being completely wrong.
I feel like it’s an unpopular take but people are like “I used chat gpt to write this email!” and I’m like you should be able to write email.
I think a lot of people are too excited to neglect core skills and let them atrophy. You should know how to communicate. It’s a skill that needs practice.
This is a reality as most people will abandon those skills, and many more will never learn them to begin with. I’m actually very worried about children who will grow up learning to communicate with AI and being dependent on it to effectively communicate with people and navigate the world, potentially needing AI as a communication assistant/translator.
AI is patient, always available, predicts desires and effectively assumes intent. If I type a sentence with spelling mistakes, chatgpt knows what I meant 99% of the time. This will mean children don’t need to spell or structure sentences correctly to effectively communicate with AI, which means they don’t need to think in a way other human being can understand, as long as an AI does. The more time kids spend with AI, the less developed their communication skills will be with people. GenZ and GenA already exhibit these issues without AI. Most people go experience this communicating across generations, as language and culture context changes. This will emphasize those differences to a problematic degree.
Kids will learn to communicate will people and with AI, but those two styles with be radically different. AI communication will be lazy, saying only enough for AI to understand. With communication history, which is inevitable tbh, and AI improving every day, it can develop a unique communication style for each child, what’s amounts to a personal language only the child and AI can understand. AI may learn to understand a child better than their parents do and make the child dependent on AI to effectively communicate, creating a corporate filter of communication between human being. The implications of this kind of dependency are terrifying. Your own kid talks to you through an AI translator, their teachers, friends, all their relationships could be impacted.
I have absolutely zero beleif that the private interests of these technology owners will benefit anyone other than themselves and at the expense of human freedom.
it’s the same with younger ppl today that have no idea how to navigate files and directories because an app with an interface does everything for them.
quite sad actually
I know someone who very likely had ChatGPT write an apology for them once. Blew my mind.
I use it to communicate with my landlord sometimes. I can tell ChatGPT all the explicit shit exactly as I mean it and it’ll shower it and comb it all nice and pretty for me. It’s not an apology, but I guess my point is that some people deserve it.
You don’t think being able to communicate properly and control your language, even/especially for people you don’t like, is a skill you should probably have? It’s not that much more effort.
I can and I do, but I don’t think he’s worth the effort specifically. Lol
Why waste the brain power when the option exists not to?
Because brains literally need exercise, and conversations with other real humans are the best kind it can get, so you’re literally speedrunning an increased potential of dementia and alzheimers with every fake email.
But you do not need to do this for every case, no? Some deserves simply formal answers. Ofc one should not do this with bosses
but why learn how to socialize when I can have an AI gf? \s
Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?
Bwcause it doesn’t take that much effort and it does then maybe you should practice more.
I think it is a good learning tool if you use it as such. I use it for help with google sheets functions (not my job or anything important, just something I’m doing), and while it rarely gets a working function out, it can set me on the right track with functions I didn’t even know existed.
We used to have web forums for that, and they worked pretty okay without the costs of LLMs
This is a little off topic but we really should, as a species, invest more heavily in public education. People should know how to read and follow instructions, like the docs that come with Google sheets.
Is something that is so often wrong a good learning tool when there are online resources?
When you can ask a specific question and get related information in the same amount of time opening the web page for documentation/“online resources” takes, why bother?
My brother used his during a board game yesterday when we encountered something we weren’t sure about rule-wise. The manual is 20-pages long and we hoped to short circuit things. It gave us a nice explanation, even formatted it into a table for ease of reading. The answer ended up being completely wrong.