Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills

Re:Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical T... by booleandilemma on Saturday February 15, 2025 @08:03AM (#43058207)

As I expected. When I got a cell phone I forgot everyone's phone numbers, and I'm afraid if I use AI I'll forget how to think.

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Re:Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical T... by withinboredom on Saturday February 15, 2025 @08:12AM (#43058256)

It probably also depends on whether you trust the AI. I don't, at all. So, I'm often critically thinking about whatever nonsense it spews out.

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Re:Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical T... by ginvok on Saturday February 15, 2025 @08:27AM (#43058327)

"You are not immune to Brain Rot"

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Re:Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical T... by TheNewsIsHere on Saturday February 15, 2025 @08:28AM (#43058337)

I wonder a lot why people use generative AI in the first place.

I’ve found in my work that I don’t really have anything to ask an AI to help me with that the generative AIs available to me are particularly good at. I distrust them, but I also haven’t really found a use for them. Which isn’t to say that such generative AIs don’t exist; I just don’t have access to those particular ones due to the nature of my work, and so haven’t tried them.

I don’t really have a use for them personally either. I think the closest I come is voice assistants, which I use so sparingly I wouldn’t miss if they were gone.

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