alt Hacker NewsI was talking to a teacher and she was explaining how everyone is reaching for AI to have everything explained to them. "I'm too dumb to understand things," is the basic assumption people are now growing up with, reaching for AI summaries all the time without trying to understand anything themselves.
Instead of trying to understand things, people are reaching for better tools to have the thinking done for them. We are losing something huge.
Every major leap forward triggers Luddism in those prone to histrionics.
You have to offload cognition in order to recognize the next abstraction. That's always been how we tackle harder problems.
A good explanation is foreplay, not a replacement for the act itself. If people stop there, that's a premature-pedagogy problem, not an AI problem.
Somewhere, an AI is summarizing this comment for someone right now, and that person understands the issue better than you do.