• The development of artificial intelligence may lead to a technological singularity when it begins to go beyond human control.
• ChatGPT is a tool designed to understand and generate human-like text based on data fed into it.
• Dominguez is concerned about the risks that AI chatbots may pose to higher-order executive functions.
• Artificial intelligence can act as a “cognitive prosthesis,” performing cognitive tasks on behalf of humans.
• Gamification involves adding game elements to non-game activities to improve decision making.
• The article warns of potential risks associated with the close integration of artificial intelligence into cognitive processes.
• Cognitive offloading can be a useful mechanism, but with technologies such as ChatGPT there is a risk of slowing cognitive development and problem-solving abilities.
We’re definitely already there. All the world’s knowledge at our fingertips and people are convinced Ice Spice is throwing satanic signs at a ballgame. We’re there without AI.
AI has taken the stress off of writing resumes and cover letters for me. I think I’m ok with that extra help.
I mean, Asimov covered this back in the '50s in his classic short story The Feeling Of Power.
That’s already been done? Since the hiring of “low-skill workers” in automated assembly lines in the early 1900s, people have generally become more uneducated. Less people understand mechanics, electronics, metallurgy, chemistry, etc. It’s been a long time coming to see even thoughts being automated.
To believe this is anything new speaks volumes to how ignorant people are of the race to the bottom that is capitalism.
People are less educated now than they were in 1900? That could not possibly be more wrong.
Access to (and participation in) education has increased dramatically for the overwhelming majority of the population. Just look at literacy rates.
Less educated? No. Less skilled workers in manufacturing and fabrication through automation? Yes. It was part and parcel of cost cutting of labour. Even Charlie Chaplin made a point of it.
In modern times, things have gotten more complex though, because of technological advances. Not that it stopped western “capitalists” from cutting labour costs, by instead opting to outsource labour to communist China.
There’s that pesky dialectical materialism showing its ugly face again.
