Is AI making us dumb?

Researchers at the University of Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon Recently published a study In the workplace, the generator AI sees how critical thinking skills used to use.

The paper states “incorrectly used, the technologies that should be degraded to the cognitive faculty can and may decrease.”

When people rely on the generator AI in the workplace, their attempt varies to verify that it is good enough to use an AI’s response, instead of using high-order critical thinking skills such as creating information, evaluation and analysis. If people intervene only when the AI ​​reactions are inadequate, the paper said, “Workers are” deprived of routine opportunities to practice their judgment and strengthen their cognitive muscles, when the exceptions are raised, they are left atrophid and disappointed. “

In other words, when we rely too much on AI to think for us, when AI fails, we become worse to solve the problem ourselves.

In this study of 5 people, who used to use the generator AI at least once a week in the workplace, the respondents were asked to share three examples of how they used a generator AI in the workplace, which read in three main categories: creation (a source email writing (a colleague, for example. ) Information (to a long article) and to consult (to make a chart from existing data) whether they practice critical thinking. If using the generator AI, they were asked to share their own, how confident they were in their own, AI outputs.

About 36% of the participant said they used critical thinking skills to reduce potential negative results from the use of AI. A participant said that he used the ChatzP to write a performance review, but the double AI output was scared that he could accidentally submit something that could suspend him. Another respondent said he had to edit the AI-exposed emails that he would send to his boss-whose culture emphasized the classification and age-so that he could not pass a disguised pass. And in many cases, participants have verified the AI-exposed reactions with more common web explorations from resources like YouTube and Wikipedia, perhaps overcome the purpose of using AI in the first place.

In order to compensate for the workers’ generator AI flaws, they need to understand how these errors occur. However, not all participants were familiar with AI limit.

“The loss of potential down streams of the genital reaction can inspire critical thoughts but only if the user is consciously aware of this national loss,” the paper is written.

In fact, the survey has shown that participants who have expressed their confidence in AI have used less critical thinking than those who have confidents of their own skills.

When researchers are hedging against the generator AI equipment that makes you thicker, the survey shows that dependence on generator AI equipment can weaken our ability to solve independent problems.