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The Great Illusion: AI, Ally or Enemy of Critical Thinking?

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A Pew Research Center survey found that 58% of The Great Illusio  technology professionals fear that AI will create a form of intellectual addiction among its users.

I love the ability of AI to come up with studies that don’t exist.

“Thought in Peril: How AI is Redefining Plagiarism and Critical Thinking”

The widespread use of these platforms is profoundly transforming the way many employees approach whatsapp data their daily tasks. And that’s often a very good thing. The problem is that, at the same time, some are increasingly using ChatGPT & Co. not as assistance but as a shortcut to accomplishing their tasks.

As one AI ethics expert at Cambridge University says, “AI can be a powerful tool for maximize the performance of individuals and organizations teaching and learning, but it should not replace human judgment and critical thinking.”

This opens the door to major risks: intellectual laziness, disappearance of trust review critical thinking, plagiarism… And I’ll skip over Elon Musk’s latest announcement: Grok . His version of ChatGPT. What is highlighted in Grok: real time via what is published on X/Twitter. The problem is that despite the warnings he issued last spring, Elon doesn’t plan a limit on his Grok. I’m talking about a limit to limit excesses (as Open AI does, for example). This is worrying when you know that since its acquisition, X/Twitter is the platform with the highest ratio of disinformation messages . Grok: the best of both worlds: we delegate everything to the machine but we do it from often dubious elements.

Using AI: The End of Critical Thinking?

“General public” AIs (ChatGPT or Bard in particular) have this very appreciable ability to create fairly well-constructed texts (especially if you start to have a certain dexterity in creating prompts) and reasoned. And they do it quickly. Almost whatever the subject.

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