While most fear job loss with Artificial Intelligence, is it possible our fears are misplaced? The real fear is our loss of intellectual atrophy & cognitive stagnation.
I've noticed this a lot with new professionals. They lean to heavily on sites like ChatGPT to do their thinking and don't going above and beyond to understand the logic underpinning the answer or do research on why the answer was given. It's a great point Sol and great article as well!
When my dad went to school, he didn't use calculators, didn't use notebooks even - he had a slate and he used chalk, and text books provided by school. His memory was so colossal that he had entire texts of popular classics like Great Expectations, Shakespeare plays, the entire works of Mirza Ghalib and numerous other Urdu poets, the times tables all the way to 30, two different periodic tables, and the entire Holy Quran in his memory.
He frequently lamented on how his daughters (me!) were not able to do simple math in our heads, and can't recall quotes from classics verbatim the way he can.
All this to say, yes, this is observable phenomenon - people who are lazy will be lazy - but they will adapt to a new world with skills that are needed to succeed in that new world.
The amazing part of all this to me is that we are still understanding what it means to be human. We are still peeling back the layers of this, and it's great that we are handing off the less valuable reasoning or memory to computers only to get to the core of the matter.
I've noticed this a lot with new professionals. They lean to heavily on sites like ChatGPT to do their thinking and don't going above and beyond to understand the logic underpinning the answer or do research on why the answer was given. It's a great point Sol and great article as well!
Unfortunately so! I’ve noticed the same which is what gave me the idea behind the post
When my dad went to school, he didn't use calculators, didn't use notebooks even - he had a slate and he used chalk, and text books provided by school. His memory was so colossal that he had entire texts of popular classics like Great Expectations, Shakespeare plays, the entire works of Mirza Ghalib and numerous other Urdu poets, the times tables all the way to 30, two different periodic tables, and the entire Holy Quran in his memory.
He frequently lamented on how his daughters (me!) were not able to do simple math in our heads, and can't recall quotes from classics verbatim the way he can.
All this to say, yes, this is observable phenomenon - people who are lazy will be lazy - but they will adapt to a new world with skills that are needed to succeed in that new world.
The amazing part of all this to me is that we are still understanding what it means to be human. We are still peeling back the layers of this, and it's great that we are handing off the less valuable reasoning or memory to computers only to get to the core of the matter.