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AI - are we losing our brain capacity for independent research?

Marianne72

I find myself regularly asking AI, instead of doing research myself. Is this another dangerous step - not stretching our brain capacity but relying on ever powerful AI. Before long, surely AI will be programmed to become sentient or designed for warfare by persons of mal intent. On the other hand, I think of the film, 'Silent Running.' We are destroying our planet - I like the idea of a robot Dewey caring for plants when humans are no longer around.

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  • Its true I read something about this the other day relating to autism research, people only ask questions they know will lead to things they want to hear or can live with. Over time it skews overall belief systems and research becomes retrograde. Its also the whole reason for peer review otherwise its just vanity publishing. I would have thought the only way human beings are going to improve is through learning about and accepting living with uncomfortable truths. The biggest truth I would say I have woken up to is largely one of erasure. I like to use entertainment as an example, we pay far too much for entertainment which is extremeley low quality so there is this huge discrepency. Also that low standards simply become normalised in everything, messaging, food, education, healthcare, how we communicate with each other - not all of these are bad or even all the time. But whats happening is industry and technology (especially in connection with advertising) are skimming more and more quality out of out lives - so we are paying more and more (with our health, souls, lives) for less and less. 

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  • Its true I read something about this the other day relating to autism research, people only ask questions they know will lead to things they want to hear or can live with. Over time it skews overall belief systems and research becomes retrograde. Its also the whole reason for peer review otherwise its just vanity publishing. I would have thought the only way human beings are going to improve is through learning about and accepting living with uncomfortable truths. The biggest truth I would say I have woken up to is largely one of erasure. I like to use entertainment as an example, we pay far too much for entertainment which is extremeley low quality so there is this huge discrepency. Also that low standards simply become normalised in everything, messaging, food, education, healthcare, how we communicate with each other - not all of these are bad or even all the time. But whats happening is industry and technology (especially in connection with advertising) are skimming more and more quality out of out lives - so we are paying more and more (with our health, souls, lives) for less and less. 

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  • in reply to pietro_21
    pietro_21 said:
    people only ask questions they know will lead to things they want to hear or can live with. Over time it skews overall belief systems and research becomes retrograde.

    Yes, it is too easy for this to happen. And I agree about the dumbing-down of entertainment - when something works, its format is immediately copied by other channels, so you end up with more of the same. I don't know where the TV license money is spent - there seem to be many repeats and rarely anything new except format drama. This has indeed spread across many fields - driven by an ever-increasing need to sell whatever the commodity is - from food to travel to mind mash.