At a recent commencement speech at Wake Forest University, Larry Culp, the CEO of General Electric, made an interesting argument about popular technologies and tools people depend upon to express their thinking. He contends that it’s easy for people to become so overly reliant on some tools that they become lazy in their thinking.
That is an excellent point, but it started mainly with the advent of the Internet in the 1990s. It is so easy to search and read an article or two to get a 10,000 feet view of any topic. In the past, it required reading a book or two. I am not saying all articles are bad but most really do not have a depth of reading a book or two on the same topic.
With AI, we will be reading a more concise view of the topic and also a one-sided view rather than with Google; there is a possibility that we may get two or more sites giving a different view. The media has also started influencing the same way by providing a one-sided worldview. We really need both sides of the view to decide what we think is our view on a topic. However, easily accessible tools, we will outsource most of our thinking to AI as we have lost most of our navigation capabilities with the advent of GPS and calculators that took away our ability to do simple arithmetic. ChatGPT like products will take our ability to write and think over time if we keep the current course.
One way to avoid it is to think on your own before you use Google or ChatGPT or any other tool, but the convenience and easy availability of these tools will be tough to overcome.
That is an excellent point, but it started mainly with the advent of the Internet in the 1990s. It is so easy to search and read an article or two to get a 10,000 feet view of any topic. In the past, it required reading a book or two. I am not saying all articles are bad but most really do not have a depth of reading a book or two on the same topic.
With AI, we will be reading a more concise view of the topic and also a one-sided view rather than with Google; there is a possibility that we may get two or more sites giving a different view. The media has also started influencing the same way by providing a one-sided worldview. We really need both sides of the view to decide what we think is our view on a topic. However, easily accessible tools, we will outsource most of our thinking to AI as we have lost most of our navigation capabilities with the advent of GPS and calculators that took away our ability to do simple arithmetic. ChatGPT like products will take our ability to write and think over time if we keep the current course.
One way to avoid it is to think on your own before you use Google or ChatGPT or any other tool, but the convenience and easy availability of these tools will be tough to overcome.