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AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid
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this post was submitted on 27 May 2025
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The thing is... AI is making me smarter! I use AI as a learning tool. The absolute best thing about AI is the ability to follow up questions with additional questions and get a better understanding of a subject. I use it to ask about technical topics and flush out a better understanding that I ever got from just a text book. I have seem some instances of hallucinating in the past, but with the current generation of AI I've had very good results and consider it an excellent tool for learning.
For reference I'm an engineer with over 25 years of experience and I am considered an expert in my field.
The article says stupid, not dumb. If I'm not mistaken, the difference is like being intelligent versus being smart. When you stop using the brain muscle that's responsible for researching, digging thru trash and bunch of obscure websites for info, using critical thinking to filter and refine your results, etc., that muscle will become atrophied.
You have essentially gone from being a researcher to being a reader.
Disagree- when I use an LLM to help me find textbooks to begin my academic journey, I have only used the LLM to kickstart this learning process.
That's not really what I was talking about. It would be closer to asking ChatGPT to make summary of said books instead of reading them