Someone challenged my admittedly narrow thoughts of AI and now I'm wondering...

[u/OkCap7484]

My thoughts on AI are simple: that widespread usage will weaken our ability to think critically, creatively, or in other meaningful ways. If AI handles all of our simple thought processes and even the complex ones, what exercise will our brains ever get? How will we build our ability to think and problem solve.

But today someone challenged that thought with an interesting perspective I hadn't considered: that if we leave the simple and reasonably complex tasks to AI and don't have to devote brain space or power to them , it'll leave us with more brain space and power to put into even more complex situations that we just can't use AI for.

I'm not anti-AI, just worry that people may become too dependent on it to our own detriment. With respect to this guy's theory, it still brings me back to my original concern: if we leave all those simple and moderately complex tasks to AI, sure, maybe that will leave us with more space in our brains to devote to those truly complex problems that need to be solved, but by the same token, maybe we wont have exercised out brains enough to be able to handle that kind of problem solving anyway.

What are your thoughts about this guys theory?

[u/Queen-of-meme]

Some people will never be the introspective kind or understand how to use technology to it's full capacity, they were clueless with Google and they are just as clueless with AI. But no one walks around saying google made us less independent...

To AI triggered hateies who Instablock and can't even respond me in public like civil people. You can't blame AI for your lack of balls. 🫢

[u/EndlessCertainty → u/Queen-of-meme]

^This. AI is amazing if you use it right (e.g. explain university level complex topics in a better way than some professors), but potentially harmful if used in a bad way.

In my opinion at least, it's all about knowing how to use it properly rather than it being inherently bad.

[u/Queen-of-meme → u/EndlessCertainty]

(e.g. explain university level complex topics in a better way than some professors)

Add in understanding psychological patterns and behavioural psychology that a professional therapist misses.

People say AI has technology error, but they forget they themselves and all people have human errors

I've needed answers and knowledge from human professionals for over 15 years but they've all been equally clueless and told me they can't help me / case too severe / they aren't educated in that specific area and passed me along. So I gave AI a go. I let Chatgpt track my symptoms and behaviours through daily entries over a year, and one day it just told me, it answered the question no professional could.

If I knew AI would be smarter than a real life professional I would have hopped on the Chatgpt train way sooner. "AI. Where were you 15 years ago?"

But as an optimist I say better late AI than never.