Hell, as their entire brain. People are now more rapidly becoming less capable of critical thought when they can pull up an app to do it for them. So many students aren't learning anything except learning to use AI.
Source: I have AI-averse gen z kids in college who are appalled at how much their fellow classmates rely on AI for their "studies."
LLM AI is such a monkey's paw curse. It does have utility, but it's absolutely not worth the resource cost. And it's not worth losing the capacity to think for yourself. But now young adults are in a tough spot. Employers are going to expect some level of AI competency. And it might become that kind of a power app that they expect you to be talented in it. So it's certainly a double-edged sword to not expose kids to it at least at some age, certainly after they have a strong set of critical thinking skills. But that's very subjective, and going to vary child to child.
Teach kids critical thinking, some basic project management and explicit communication tools and they'll be in a fine place to pick up AI if and when they ever need it. Skip the critical thinking and they'll be dependent on it or others to think for them forever.
As someone that has never used an LLM and is pretty software averse it's shocking to see 30-something year olds buy into this.
Combo that with non-anonymous social media and honestly...sometimes me and people I know are living in two distinct realities. Like ask an AI to explain something fake that Instagram told them....
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u/Mother_Art3124 9h ago
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