First of all I don’t live in a neighbourhood with something equivalent of a HOA, but we do have an organisational unit that involves the group of 6 homes where I live in.
We had a meeting regarding the repair of a shared drain pipe following an inspection we had earlier this year, the camera inspection had a cost of €120 that was equally divided among 6 households, so €20 each, nice and easy.
After getting the quote for the repairs, one of our neighbours asked chatgpt to split the bill, €1500 divided by 6.
edit: paraphrasing, he proudly said "I asked chatgpt and 1500/6 is 250”
Do you really need to ask an LLM to divide two numbers? something the cheapest calculator can do instantly, or better yet, something you can easily do I your head?
Honestly. It feels like some people have become so dependent on LLMs that they’ll ask them to solve the even most basic of questions.
Our bodies evolved on a “use it or lose it” basis, and like every other muscle in our bodies, the brain is not immune to this…
If you let your brain sit idle while passing on such simple tasks to AI, the neuronal pathways for these tasks will weaken to the point you’ll have to relearn them from scratch.
These AI companies want this to happen. They want more and more people to become dependent, so that once they decide to rug pull you with the true cost, you’ll have no choice but to pay up because you can’t cope without it. This is true not just for humans but even entire industries as a whole, who have very keenly taken to replacing humans with it.
I believe this is what you’re insinuating. The kids will grow up incapable of learning anything, and then we will die out.
and then we will die out
So there is an upside?
I suppose so, though only the morons who use ChatGPT for everything will live to see it, under this theory.
Pruning is influenced by environmental factors. For instance, if the eyes are sewn shut in the critical period when synaptic pruning of the retina takes place, the lack of input of light will cause the synaptic connections required for vision to die off, resulting in blindness.[1][10]
That’s some Nazi level experimental torture shit
There’s a good chance that’s where the experimental data came from in the first place.
I’m a little surprised it gave the right answer. Although those are relatively common numbers, so it does make sense that it would.
Hey. At least he was upfront with using an unreliable source. It’s a low bar, but deserves some positive reinforcement. As other people do the same thing, they just don’t get scolded because they keep it hidden.
I did reply “yes, 1500 divided by 3 is 500 and divided by 2 is 250”. No acknowledgement of my commentary tho.
Hmmh. Zero recognition of critical thinking.
Sorry for giving unsolicited advice: I think from an education perspective, you could do even better next time. Don’t provide them with the answer. That’s generally not what we do in teaching. They’ll stay passive this way, as they still don’t need to activate their brain once they get the answer handed on a silver platter. I’d rather reply something like: “And how do you know this is the correct answer?” That forces them to activate a few brain cells. And maybe whilst switching to active mode, their brain is able to store some new information. At least it might connect going with the lazy option (asking ChatGPT) came with some extra effort they themselves had to put in (by checking the maths). You kinda took that experience away from them because you did the extra work for them. Just don’t expect any miracles. It just increases the odds a bit someone will learn something. But in the end they’ll still need to do the thinking and learning themselves.
I would have said “thanks for confirming with tons of long term ecological damage what you could have done in your head in 3 minutes, or checked on the built in calculator of whatever device you’re using and been done in less time than it took me to write this message that, while petty, I feel is necessary to mock the use of chatgpt.”
I uh… Don’t get along with dumb neighbors.
It’s crazy how people go out of their way to ask chatbots for things it would be easier to do the normal way. A while back I saw someone post that they asked ChatGPT for a random seed for a new Minecraft world. ffs! It’s literally built into the game to automatically generate a random seed when creating a new world without you doing anything.
