Yes the article reporting on a research paper has an agenda, and not the random guy ignoring the evidence to contradict it. With absolutely zero to show for your argument, and clearly using flawed logic.
All I hear is the laugh of ignorance.
Carpenters trained on power tools will suddenly perform worse with hand tools than carpenters who were never given power tools.
Now you are just making shit up. None of these examples are about people being trained on AI. The comparison would be if a carpenter using power tolls for 10 minutes, suddenly becomes worse at using the traditional tools he is trained to use.
Your claim is baseless, there is no evidence for it, and the lack of any evidence of it, makes it an unreasonable assumption based on your prejudice alone, and should not be believed.
Let people have AI and perform better with it.
Again a very loaded statement, nobody is preventing anybody from using AI based on this research. But maybe people are not really performing better, or at least not always, it may depend on the task.
Your logic is fundamentally flawed and inconsistent, and you seem to lack any ability to see this as a potential problem, so much so that it reeks of you having an agenda.
Your flawed logic and prejudice does not beat 3 research papers.
In academia it is normal not to directly spell out things that are obvious to a person with academic knowledge on the subject, research papers are meant for scholars, and they are supposed to be able to read and understand the consequences for themselves.
So you can’t use it as an argument that it isn’t spelled out, if it can be easily derived by a person who understands the subject.
Research papers do not spell out every possible consequence of their findings.
The calculator test might be good for comparison, and I’m pretty sure if given the same amount of time, and one group being allowed to use calculator for half the test, that group would solidly outperform a group not using calculators at all.
I was in 5th grade in 1975, and we were the first class to get calculators in 5th grade. Which became the standard for many years after.
I have never heard complaints about students being less capable of understanding basic math problems because they use calculators. Although the idea of using calculators in schools were heavily debated. It’s similar to people not getting worse at spelling from using a dictionary.
The sessions lasted about 10 minutes, suggesting that those who decided to rely heavily on AI to solve problems for them abandoned their critical thinking abilities in a matter of minutes.
And the ability to think critically to detect it declines. So it’s doubly harmful!
That sounds a lot like what the studies show. And IMO that sounds like a serious problem.
You are disregarding the last paragraph, where 2 other studies showed similar results, without having the “disruptive” factor.
A calculator is not the same problem, it doesn’t reduce our general ability to think critically.
and people got worse at mental calculus when calculators when invented.
That may be true, but that is a much more limited problem, than losing some of our ability for critical thinking and problem solving in general.
ai, meanwhile, or at least the ai we’re sold, does not offer significant advantages
This is very true, the AI are shown to even hallucinate, and give incorrect and harmful solutions. A calculator does NOT do that.
So not only is the AI a danger to our critical thinking, we actually need it MORE when using AI.
No the test is not training, that’s a weird thing to claim. The switch is what is tested, and you disregard that 2 other tests have shown similar results. An actual decline in critical and problem solving thinking.
You clearly didn’t read the article, and you are dead wrong.
Except you are right that if you let the AI do everything, it’s worse, and you lose a lot of ability for critical thinking.
The last paragraph of the article even shows that other studies have shown that using AI assistance over time, will even have long term effect of lowering problem solving abilities!!
Personally I try not to use it at all, not a fan of all the problems that come with it.
This is the way. 😀
According to a new study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Oxford, and UCLA,
Study should be solid I guess.
participants who were given AI assistants (in this case, a chatbot powered by OpenAI’s GPT-5 model) would have the aid pulled from them without warning during the test
Wow, interesting idea. 👍
where they had their assistant removed, the AI group saw the solve rate fall off a cliff. They had a solve rate about 20% lower
And even worse IMO:
They also had nearly double the skip rate, meaning they simply chose not to solve the questions.
This seems very alarming IMO, because this indicates they lost some of their ability to think constructively on how to actually solve a problem!
I know there have always been some who cried wold every time new technology has become available, like calculators and computers. Even dictionaries were once claimed to be harmful once!
But maybe this time there is a real danger, because AI takes away a lot of the need to actually think creatively and constructively. And that’s an ability we must not lose.
The last paragraph of the article is even worse. As it mentions 2 studies that show these effects are also long term!!!
Trump is a giant asshole, even demanding a 10% surcharge on weapons bought by NATO allies to support Ukraine!!
USA is not an ally at all anymore because of Trump, he is just monetizing and exploiting the situation. Absolutely zero sense of friendship or protecting democracy or the free world or even allies, that have now become former allies.
Trump does not deserve a thank you, but Zelenskyy thanked Trump and USA many times anyway. But the time of sweet talking Trump and USA is running out. They are not helping, and are no longer needed, and Trump is making USA irrelevant.