Don't you think AI is making people super lazy and answering nearly everything with 'I asked chatgpt x, y, z'

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I hate how in just a couple of years nearly everyone replies to me online with 'ask chapgpt to do x y z for you'. They have become so dependent on it I wonder how they will manage in some more years if it went away. They will probably not know how to tie their own shoelaces without chatgpt telling them what to do and die due to atrophied skillsets.
 
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AI does indeed encourage laziness in some people, but it is essentially just a tool; the real problem lies not in the tool itself, but in whether users are still willing to think independently and retain the ability to solve problems with their own hands.
 
LokiProxy said:
AI does indeed encourage laziness in some people, but it is essentially just a tool; the real problem lies not in the tool itself, but in whether users are still willing to think independently and retain the ability to solve problems with their own hands.
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Yes but 99% of the population fall in the first camp.

The same analogy can be made about cars. Most people I know will drive to the shops within 5 minute walking distance rather than walk or cycle.
 
Yeah, I’ve noticed this too. AI is great when you actually need help, but asking it about every little thing probably isn’t doing people any favors.
 
slopppyfart said:
Yes but 99% of the population fall in the first camp.

The same analogy can be made about cars. Most people I know will drive to the shops within 5 minute walking distance rather than walk or cycle.
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Yes. I once heard a story about how the bridge was said to have been invented by a "lazy" person. When there was no bridge, everyone would walk along the riverbank to go around the river, but this lazy person didn't want to walk that far, so he laid down a long wooden plank, and thus the bridge came into being. In the same way, artificial intelligence is also meant to make things more convenient for everyone.

And in life, people always seem more inclined to rely on tools that are more convenient, ones that save effort and mental energy.

I very much agree with your point: if artificial intelligence or these tools were to suddenly disappear, what would this world become?
 
#1: Humans do these types of things a lot: They unnecessarily, inappropriately rely on others to do things for them. Here are a few reasons as to why:

* Society has taught them to not use their own brain, but instead use mob mentality.

* By getting someone else to think for them, they have someone else to blame if things go badly.

* It is harder to think for oneself, and humans will do everything to avoid difficulty.

Others' advice can be helpful, but there comes a point in life where we need to learn to make decisions ourselves. Example: 'Should I watch X film?' Answer: If you are interested enough in it to ask about it, then yes.

It is similar to quotes by famous people: Humans accept them as truth without analyzing them first. Before I share a quote that I like, I first think about it myself: 'Ignoring who said it, is this quote good?' If a great lawyer said, 'Murder is legal if your name is Carl,' would it be true?

When it comes to asking AI, it is especially concerning that some ---like my past self from a few years ago--- use it for legal advice.
 
Shadow1414 said:
When it comes to asking AI, it is especially concerning that some ---like my past self from a few years ago--- use it for legal advice.
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Lol this is real?

I am just shocked how they have pretty much all data from the internet. I mean why did they get trained to learn about Skyrim mods? lol doesn't seem a priority, which is what someone was telling me to use ChatGPT for the other day. I guess they were just told to trawl all internet data ever so what you might be looking for will just be a part of that, not specifically trained on that dataset.

There are philosophical points to be made in your post. For example the majority of society cannot farm their own food, so if that infrastructure went down most of the world's population will die in weeks or maybe come like Mad Max in short order of mobs fighting for the resources.
 
You could make the same claim about Google but that's not always the case
Depends on how you use it
 
slopppyfart said:
I hate how in just a couple of years nearly everyone replies to me online with 'ask chapgpt to do x y z for you'. They have become so dependent on it I wonder how they will manage in some more years if it went away. They will probably not know how to tie their own shoelaces without chatgpt telling them what to do and die due to atrophied skillsets.
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Yep, that worries me a lot.. even elemtary kids starting to depend on GPT for homework, suggestions, and even personal decisions. using it as learning tool one thing, but if they start relying on it for everything, I worry they slowly lose ability to think for themselves, along with their creativity and imagnation.
 
Yes, back off relying on AI to explain how to do everything. But using it as a research tool to quickly get the facts, or simple resource estimates for a project can be quite a time saver, to actually enhance one's thinking process. If your plan is to do billboard advertising, for example, ain't nuttin' wrong with asking AI to give you an idea as to what that costs at this time. This fast retrieval of data can be great in speeding up your decision process. Or, it helps in providing an immediately useful and relevant factoid to a blog or forum comment for a discussion on the fly, to keep your posts from being labeled as spam.
 
AI is useful, but I always take its advice with a grain of salt. I once asked AI about my dog's poop problems, and it confidently told me to feed my dog MSG. Where I'm from, MSG is known poison to dogs. So I don't refer to its answer like it's always the right one.
 
If chatGPT disappeared tomorrow, wouldn't we just go back to google and youtube tutorials like before? same thing happened with calculators, and we still know how to count. :)
 
I'd assume this can turn out to be a serious problem, especially in the educational years, when people are supposed to actually learn things and learn to think.

If a machine answers the majority of the tasks you're supposed to research or think about, than you simply miss the reality of the actual learning process, learning and understanding why you learn.

The first step was indeed Google or search engines, where the majority will preach its gospel even though it is often returning slated or biased search results.

The worst is, if someone that apparently doesn't have the means of generating a somewhat sensible answer or input on a given topic simply copies and pastes the AI response.
 
The problem isnt using ai its skipping the thinking part completely

I use it to get somewhere faster but if you cant tell when the answer is wrong then youre basically outsourcing a skill you never learned.
 
Another thought I had...with all the talk of AI displacing jobs in the next few years will internet marketing be one of them? Not sure how that would look? Just one click insta ranking? surely it would stay super competitive but just ai fighting ai rather than human fighting human? does it mean we wont make any more money in this field or just that it will be totally automated?
 
slopppyfart said:
Another thought I had...with all the talk of AI displacing jobs in the next few years will internet marketing be one of them? Not sure how that would look? Just one click insta ranking? surely it would stay super competitive but just ai fighting ai rather than human fighting human? does it mean we wont make any more money in this field or just that it will be totally automated?
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Well I've heard first-hand stories how someone basically lets agents run his media buying and it works.

AI can be extremely useful when it comes to research / cranking out the data and stats needed to optimize one's campaigns, determine which campaigns to pause, where to bid more etc.

It also enables one to make variations of banner / creatives / video ads etc. much faster than what was possible in the past.

So this may be a must to learn if one wants to stay competitive.

But I guess it will eventually come down to:

1) who will be able to stand out among the current AI content overload
2) who will be able to operate the AI to the benefit of their online business better.

I'm also curious if AI watermarks will soon become a thing when it comes to online marketing (AI content flags etc.)

In any case, the genie is out of the bottle.
 
The problem isn't AI itself, its people relying on it rather than using it as a tool to assist. I agree, many people cant seem to think for themselves these days.
 
I've gotta say it doesn't seem to reduce my abilities but it does undermine my confidence in them sometimes.
 
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