Something I'd like to see more examination of - when enough time has passed that we can get the data - is whether the use of AI for whole cloth creation of art eventually leads to something like burnout among its users. Part of the joy of creating art is the dopamine hit from improving over time, which isn't necessarily the case for AI art creators.
This is a good overview of the latest early evidence on how AI use is affecting us.
However, I found the framing of this piece irritating. The evidence discussed is completely compatible with a world in which offloading cognition to artificial intelligence is hindering our ability to cultivate and maintain expertise and creative thought. Such a loss of skill is within the range of what a normal person would call "making us stupid". Unless I'm missing something important?
"There’s no inherent downside, for example, to relying on Google Maps to get around."
Going to have to disagree strongly there. Insofar as it makes us worse at unaided navigation, it fuels reliance on Google. And sure, to an extent the same is true for analog maps, but analog maps aren't produced and operated by a massive tech company with a highly dubious privacy record which specializes in serving users personalized ads.
Something I'd like to see more examination of - when enough time has passed that we can get the data - is whether the use of AI for whole cloth creation of art eventually leads to something like burnout among its users. Part of the joy of creating art is the dopamine hit from improving over time, which isn't necessarily the case for AI art creators.
This is a good overview of the latest early evidence on how AI use is affecting us.
However, I found the framing of this piece irritating. The evidence discussed is completely compatible with a world in which offloading cognition to artificial intelligence is hindering our ability to cultivate and maintain expertise and creative thought. Such a loss of skill is within the range of what a normal person would call "making us stupid". Unless I'm missing something important?
"There’s no inherent downside, for example, to relying on Google Maps to get around."
Going to have to disagree strongly there. Insofar as it makes us worse at unaided navigation, it fuels reliance on Google. And sure, to an extent the same is true for analog maps, but analog maps aren't produced and operated by a massive tech company with a highly dubious privacy record which specializes in serving users personalized ads.