I can see the point of AI for some tasks.
Using it to speed up research and such, fine.
I have heard of people using ChatGPT to help envision colours or designs in their home or garden. What the finished result might look like. Fine.
I have also used an AI program that generates fantasy photos for the grandkids. It uses their real head superimposed on fantasy backgrounds-princesses, dragons etc. A bit of fun.
But to use it to write resumes or emails or articles-no, just no. I agree, it is creating a situation where people are not exercising their brains. I read somewhere that children today are showing changes in behaviour/thinking and it is thought it may come down to too much online time.
In the online world, things move fast, kids become used to stimulation but what they don't get practice in is long periods of concentration.
The ability to think deeply about a topic.
I have been retired a while now but I recall our prin at staff meetings saying if a child wasn't concentrating, it was out fault and we had to be engaging. That is all very well to a degree, but sometimes tasks are not fun, they can be long and challenging, they can be 'hard work'. Sometimes the satisfaction has to come quietly at the end, with a task completed, a new skill mastered.
The idea of someone using chatGPT to write a breakup text is horrid. You'd think a person could at least call and speak to their partner in person, but at the very minimum, write their own text.
I was reading something the other day that made me think-what's the point of that?
I play words with friends with a couple of people. Now apparently there is a program (which I have not seen so can't vouch if this is true) where people can somehow show their board and the AI system will tell them the highest scoring move. So get that! The actual person isn't looking at their own letters or having any input at all.
Imagine if the two people were using that program.😂 They may as well hand it over to the machines and be done with it as there would be no fun in it at all that I can see.
We're moving into challenging times.
I also read that one worry some people had with a program was that they were using AI to solve (hyperthetical) problems but they found the system was prepared to sacrifice real people before itself. It chose to 'live' or survive at all costs.
It's a worry and it will bear watching as the decisions AI makes won't necessarily be in our interests.
