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Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills

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I think this problem is overblown. I asked ChatGPT if I need to worry about this. It said not to worry.
- It explains why every corporation — of which Microsoft is a frontrunner — is shoving AI down your throat, too.
  They want to destroy your critical thinking skills, so you will eat shit and accept it, while praising jesus to the fascist dictatorship, that is brought to you by carls junior.
  
  Nah, they're just doing things without regard for the consequences. Not specifically because of the consequences.

Microsoft warns about Ai making people dumber and less creative, proceeds to add more Ai to Windows and Office... ?!
- DeepSeek beats every western AI. Now Microsoft says AI bad. Good timing.
  
  I've tried DeepSeek and it's ass. It managed to churn out 5 huge paragraphs comparing two graphic card models and in those huge 5 paragraphs provided literally ZERO useful information. It was just whole lot of hypothetical bullshit in terms of "this one might be better than that one because shaders" and continued to provide no numbers, no actual data, no nothing.
- DeepSeek beats every western AI. Now Microsoft says AI bad. Good timing.

Does the pattern hold all the way? I.e is the root cause actually ease of access to info? Did reliance on the internet and the information age also cause declines in critical thinking? Should kids be raised without computers? I guess I'm asking what it is about ai specifically that causes the deteriortion?
- Imagine life is like an essay answer type exam.
  Having access to search is like the exam being open-book. The exact answers aren't in the textbook, but you don't have to memorize every detail. You still need enough knowledge and critical thinking skills to answer the unique questions based on the data available to you.
  Having access to an LLM is like your friend giving you the list of questions on the exam and their answers, or at least the answers they think are right. You just dutifully copy in the essay style answers and don't need to know anything whatsoever. Maybe the answers you copied in are right, maybe they're not.
- Because AI solves problems where as the Internet is, for the most part, just books. However, for apps that solve problems, they do cause a loss in some forms of thinking. Mapping programs cause a loss in navigational awareness unless specifically countered with deliberate behavior.

Gen Alpha = Gen AI. With DoE cuts in the US, they’re going to need higher education to avoid life as prompt jockeys.

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