@drrachelbarr: Replying to @sophiaamcbride Why it’s unlikely that ChatGPT will diminish critical thinking skills 🧠 #neuroscience #science #chatgpt #criticalthinking

Stylessnoun Opinionman :

Socrates thought writing would weaken our memory

glenn.with.one.n :

The first time I vehemently disagree, but I do appreciate the perspective.

gaussianentity :

Diminishing is indeed a bad descriptor for what could happen. Those who are already adept at using their minds won't atrophy. But those who are not definitely will be tempted to avoid the work needed to improve the connections of the brain. I've seen this occur with students and calculators where those overly reliant on them were worse at math than those who weren't. Not an official study but perhaps there is something out there to confirm this.

M A F :

I thought I understood manifestation until I read Money Override by Donald Black. It's like having a guide that knows all the secrets no one talks about.

sami salami :

It's not intelligence I'm worried about, it's creativity

Lini💌 :

“It’s not likely that this is going to be the one time we’re right about it” the introduction of GPS and Google maps significantly reduced people’s spatial navigation skills because they stopped using their cognitive skills and outsourced them to the Google map/ GPS…..

tomskodex :

So what about MIT’s study showing that AI can reduce critical thinking skills by up to 30%?

Lady Lazarus :

As someone who teaches English college courses- I disagree. I don’t believe using AI automatically diminished critical thinking but students using it for everything means they aren’t actually engaging with material and learning new skills so there is definitely a negative consequence on thinking and skill.

prosperityforthepeople :

Technology is a wealth transfer from those who wait for others to do things for them, to those who take responsibility for their own growth

Tiktok_1357924680 :

The key is approaching AI as a collaborator— one that challenges and expands your thinking, not a substitute for doing it yourself.

eli ★SOUNDWAVE SUPERIOR★ :

unfortunately from my personal experience i had to disagree. during my first semester of uni (which is when i began to use chatgpt) i scored 3.75 gpa. on my second semester, in which i became too reliant on chatgpt for most of my tasks and note, my score dropped heavily to 3.25. i was horrified and lessen/quit AI use by semester 3 and my gpa shoots up again.

Nathan :

unfortunately it cannot diminish a skill that is already absent in a lot of people 😔🙏

momitotot :

people are acting the same our parents did when the internet was created, and our ancestor when writing machines became a thing, and i could continue with examples. ia is a tool, like any other. 👍

Dan in real strife :

it's not the human condition I'm concerned with, it's the condition of the planet

V. :

Naturally, there is nuance. But “use it or lose it” still applies, and too many people are eager to actively avoid mental effort. The facilitation of this is what concerns me. People who don’t *want* to acquire critical thinking skills can now get away with genuinely never doing so.

perchanceamir :

nooo let’s not claim this bc this IS cognitive offloading onto technology which is proven to reduce critical thinking and attention skills. Reading and writing is very different from generative technology. Our brain responds completely different to tech.

Heckatie :

MY GOD THANK YOU PEOPLE DIDN’T EVEN READ THE MIT STUDY

Birdwatcher79 :

The entire teaching profession begs to differ. We are watching it in real time.

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INTEGRATE :

Finally! I've been saying that we keep having the same conversations whenever a new technology comes up, so the technology it not the issue. It irks me out when educated people repeat that rhetoric, it makes me feel like anti-ai conversations are not being genuine, because they are just parroting headlines or fear mongering, instead of listening to all the balanced conversations about AI.

yungsweatergod :

what about gpt induced psychosis?

liz :

what about coding skills😭

Dr Glen McLachlan :

It is difficult to generalise previous tech advancements to the case of LLMs though, because we’ve never before developed a technology that even had the potential of performing critical thinking for us. If critical thinking is our highest form of cognitive performance (that is an assumption I am making), and AI supplants that, then what type of thinking is it reducing our load for?

@mikesand286 :

Dr. Rachel, this is, in my opinion, outstanding and well targeted thinking on a very challenging direction to the future of thinking, reasoning and education. Educational methods will have to change! I wrote a book years ago in the field of electronics which focused on new logical concepts to learning that technology. It changed some way of learning that incorporate your own best ideas. I love following your lines of thought! Thanks..

Faendell :

I think that if good ppl don't interact with AI, it'll only collect the worst data of humanity and its behavior will keep emulating that. it'll happen the same that happened with politics, good ppl didn't wanna get involved and now we're in this mess all around the globe.