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Finally witnessed somebody use ChatGPT instead of socialising (lemmy.world)

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A few colleagues and I were sat at our desks the other day, and one of them asked the group, "if you were an animal, what animal would you be?"

I answered with my favourite animal, and we had a little discussion about it. My other colleague answered with two animals, and we tossed those answers back and forth, discussing them and making jokes. We asked the colleague who had asked the question what they thought they'd be, and we discussed their answer.

Regular, normal, light-hearted (time wasting lol) small talk at work between friendly coworkers.

We asked the fourth coworker. He said he'd ask ChatGPT.

It was a really weird moment. We all just kind of sat there. He said the animal it came back with, and that was that. Any further discussion was just "yeah that's what it said" and we all just sort of went back to our work.

That was weird, right? Using ChatGPT for what is clearly just a little bit of friendly small talk? There's no bad blood between any of us, we hang out a lot, but it just struck me as really weird and a little bit sad.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago

There's past evidence that the brain essentially outsources whole categories of knowledge and memories and skill to its surroundings.

You might get good at certain things and learn certain things, somebody else learns something else, and then you both learn roughly what the other knows, at which point you rely on them for questions specific to what they know, and they rely on you for your specialty.

We do this with technology too (it's a big part of skills involving tools), and people has been doing it with dictionaries, online searches, etc.

But doing it so universally for everything, just because chatgpt can form answer-shaped text for anything, is just insane. Don't you even want to have your own personal feelings and thoughts? Do you just want to become an indirect interface to a bot for other people?

It's like the kind of personality-less people who mold themselves after popular people around them, but they're doing it with an algorithm instead...

[-] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

Yeah this is why its important to teach math without calculators

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