• bthest@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    I delivered pizza during COVID and most people I worked with couldn’t follow simple directions to an address or read a road map. If a destination didn’t show up on their cellphone’s navigation then they were immediately and hopelessly lost.

    If you don’t use and exercise your brain then it atrophies and dies. AI is going turn a lot of people into conscious vegetables.

    • GingaNinga@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      I have this problem with a bunch of new hires. I’ll show them another way to do something and they’ll ask, oh where was that written down? I said Just think about what I just did and how it makes sense, its not written down this is a neat trick i’m showing you. I swear there is no creativity or critical thinking anymore, just a bunch of automatons that follow protocol to the letter and the second there is a situation outside those very narrow parameters they just implode. Someone had to figure all of this out at one point and make the protocol in the first place, sometimes there is no step by step guide and you need to exercise judgement and make some decisions on your own.

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      8 hours ago

      We need to teach people curiosity. I use my GPS all the time because of construction and stuff but I also look at the route before I leave so that I know where I’m headed on my own, too. Meanwhile I know people who’ve lived in a city for decades and still can’t get around it without help.

    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 hours ago

      Pretty sure this has been happening for decades. The “problem” (it’s not a problem) is navigation systems, not LLMs.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        9 hours ago

        I don’t think they were blaming AI for the inability to follow directions without a GPS… They were making an analogy.

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          6 hours ago

          Yup. How many phone numbers do you have memorized? If you’re from the era before cellphones you had to memorize numbers or carry a cheat sheet. You probably had anywhere from 10-30 numbers memorized. Now people don’t even know their spouses numbers.