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Professors Say AI Is Destroying Their Students' Ability to Think (futurism.com)
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[–] 131 points 6 months ago* (62 children)

It's absolutely terrifying. I am a returning student to uni in my thirties and the only person not using any AI. They literally depend on it.

I just had a classmate the other day turn to me, frustrated, saying "You ever ask chat(gpt) a question and it gives you a whole, like, paragraph you then have to read? like, why can't it simplify it?"

Did I mention I am an electrical/computer engineering double major? So yeah, even reading is too much for these kids. Future workforce is fucking cooked.

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  • [–] 44 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    Oh yes! We are fucked.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    It genuinely feels that way yeah like idk what we do about this problem it's bad, however bad you think it is it's worse

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I've seen some videos of Costco brawls between gen z men over Pokemon cards they want to flip. Surely the bar can't get lower then that

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I think, unfortunately, we are being lead by grifters creating a society of grifters i.e. the future generation is learning the lesson that the way to get ahead is by grifting.

    I know this is gonna sound dramatic but if it keeps going? We're looking at apocalyptic outcomes for the future of civilization.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    the future generation is learning the lesson that the way to get ahead is by grifting.

    So basically how it always was?

    There's a reason why there are billionaires...

    But yeah it's likely getting worse, like an elite and otherwise brain-dead propaganda following society (to exaggerate a little bit...). Initially after reading Adorno years ago, I never thought that the rather negative way he wrote, and something like the third Reich will not happen again, yet here we are repeating mistakes, fueled by accelerating climate-change (and the resulting conflicts)...

    We are leaving (or rather have left) the most peaceful era of humanity, back to smashing each others heads without a real reason, leaving a more positive holistic utopian future... Sad.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    i think thats a different situation, some people are greedy and think they can make money flipping cards which is pretty mucha problem with TCPi/TCPJ but they have very little incentive to fix that issue, MTG unintentionally remediated that issue by pushing out UB sets multiple times a year more than normal, essentially making older sets useless/or less useful as you have to keep buying the new sets to keep up. this is about people inability to think for themselves.

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  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    I have a friend who was frustrated that his programming exam was too hard (Python) and stated " why do I need to learn this? I can just use ai and get the job done ". We're absolutely fugged.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)

    It's honestly disheartening. I understand our education system is not well in that tests aren't actually very condusive to learning, but they treat the idea of learning a skill like it's some obnoxious chore they just want over with so they never have to do it again when its like... bruh civilization/tech grows exponentially, y'all gotta learn your whole lives and it should be something you ENJOY it should give you pride to be good at something or understand a subject thoroughly.

    i don't even know what to begin doing about this problem but even if you pretend the environmental impacts are fine/manageable, I can't help but think this shits gotta be destroyed for the future of humanity.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Future workforce is fucking cooked.

    Yep, and I predict that programmers actually understanding code (and especially being able to quickly and thoroughly review code), are becoming increasingly valuable (again?) in the future, when someone really has to guarantee what the AI actually generated (and let me tell you there are still so many stupid things the AI does...).

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    my older bro who is in tech, depends on it for almost every question he has or when he is ask a very simple question. asked him something about laundry last year, he said "use CHATGPT", theres really no hope for these people. and then later on ask what was causing "flies " to appear in the house, he kept using AI eventhough it was pretty giving inaccurate info,

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    my bro who is in tech refers to chatgpt as a go-to anytime he has a question or is asked a very simple question, yea pretty much screwed, and he think AI slop generated pictures are epitome of some kind of art piece.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that the "chat" slang was short for ChatGPT.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    no, it's for the chat audience in video streams

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