I've noticed this trend among college students over the past 30 years. Used to be, they would go to the library to study as a matter of course. Who knows, you might meet a cute girl/boy there? In any case there would always be plenty of books to read.
Today, so many students think it's preposterous to expect them to actually go to a library. If information doesn't exist online then it's clearly unimportant. Google has the answer to all questions. Grok and Chat GPT are just taking this laziness to a new level.
The vast majority of books in academic libraries have never been digitized and there is no robust effort to do so. If students' laziness continues, so much wisdom and knowledge from the past will effectively be lost even though it's sitting right there collecting dust on library shelves.
that's a shame considering how flawed the peer review process is in Western academia. Were you able to use non-English peer reviewed journals? Many of the Russian ones are quite good.
I think it also depends on the field you are in. In science fields, people mostly fixate on current research. In other fields like history and theology, even hundred-year old journal articles can still be quite relevant. So in the STEM subjects the online material seems to dominate whereas in the humanities, a lot of the useful material is still found offline.
These AI machines to me are like balers; they roam the internet harvesting the information and shoot out bales of hay/knowledge in a neat package. Some are rectangular and some are round bales.They can't think they just regurgitate what people have produced. Meanwhile people walk around chewing their cud waiting for the end. Can AI make a funny meme? Meme magic.
yes, when I asked ChatGPT 'how' they got their info' ^ your explanation is similar to the reply...they can search Everything very quickly, and put it into a neat package. but I've found it can be wrong or tainted by wokeness. have to correct it a lot! especially when talking about traveling. it told me we would drive through Nebraska to get to Washington DC...that would be going West for us! and the maps are insane...
ChatGPT. They still can't put the correct amount of fingers on an image. I bet if you asked it how many lakes are in the finger lakes they would say one or two.
My friend got three Angus calves from a slightly nefarious situation. She pulled hairs and got raw genetic data on all of them. She didn't think to ask the lab for parental verification or anything else; she just had the raw numbers. I uploaded the screenshots into Grok and within about 45 seconds I had an answer for her: all three calves shared a sire, two were full brother/sister twins (rendering the female twin a likely free martin and not fertile) and the third calf a close cousin. Not the result she wanted, but the tech was cool. No slant from any opinionated websites - just very detailed analytical calculations.
I just started seeing it this week.... Like it all started at once and ALOT at once. It actually made me think that alot of these were "bots" advertising using this feature.
But what a sad reflection of society, but an unsettling truth and reality about society. Most people need someone to think for them. They outsource most of their thinking on things like that. It's just like redditors who read a post title and immediately jump to the comments to know how to think/ feel about it.
Rather than "empowering" anyone like AI marketers like to claim, it's just a crutch, another way to get brains dependent on it.
AI will go the same way as the MSM and search engines. They will start out genuine enough but, as people start relying on them, they will be subverted to reinforce the approved narrative.
It used to be that math students would pride themselves on how quickly they could do complex arithmetic and square roots in their head. Upon the invention of calculators, that human skill was lost. Now, almost nobody practices that, because calculators are ubiquitous and there simply is no need.
The same thing is going to happen to other academic skills now the AI is available. Humans aren't going to need to know how to use proper grammar or spell, or memorize historical events, or skim research papers. All of that, just like doing complex arithmetic in your head, will be lost and unnecessary in future generations. They will have an AI at their command to handle that.
Education will have to adjust, just like math departments adjusted to the reality of calculators. Different skills will be required, such as how to prompt and communicate effectively with your AI to get the answers you need.
People are being steadily removed from reality. When we get to the point that no-one can do anything without using the Internet then they will switch it off and have complete power over all people.
Food used to come from those seeds you planted last year or from the chickens in the yard but now food is a multiple choice question in an Internet app. You tick some boxes, the food arrives at your door and an account you have somewhere else on the Internet gets decremented.
While I would prefer no AI at all, I hope that human culture with AI will evolve to value the extra free time granted by it as a way to pursue better health and food. That includes humans in the future placing cultural importance, not just financial value, on growing their own food. I would welcome the day peers and neighbors were impressed by the produce from our gardens rather than the size of our McMansions. Call me a dreamer, but I have hope that Trump's "the best is yet to come" means something more than just economics and technology. The culture of America needs to be rebuilt before fixing anything else the globalists destroyed.
I've noticed this trend among college students over the past 30 years. Used to be, they would go to the library to study as a matter of course. Who knows, you might meet a cute girl/boy there? In any case there would always be plenty of books to read.
Today, so many students think it's preposterous to expect them to actually go to a library. If information doesn't exist online then it's clearly unimportant. Google has the answer to all questions. Grok and Chat GPT are just taking this laziness to a new level.
The vast majority of books in academic libraries have never been digitized and there is no robust effort to do so. If students' laziness continues, so much wisdom and knowledge from the past will effectively be lost even though it's sitting right there collecting dust on library shelves.
Yeah, but how smart could the old timers have been? They didn't even have google.
It's amazing they ever figured out how to make babies without access to porn sites to understand how things are done.
The village in Afghanistan that needed Americans to teach them why they weren't having babies ...they were using the wrong hole.
Idiocracy can happen quickly.
I could only use Peer Reviewed Journal articles
that's a shame considering how flawed the peer review process is in Western academia. Were you able to use non-English peer reviewed journals? Many of the Russian ones are quite good.
I think it also depends on the field you are in. In science fields, people mostly fixate on current research. In other fields like history and theology, even hundred-year old journal articles can still be quite relevant. So in the STEM subjects the online material seems to dominate whereas in the humanities, a lot of the useful material is still found offline.
Bingo
AI will become the god of the bug eaters.
They will be happy.
"The Cloud" turned out to just be other people's computers. AI is just other people's search results.
These AI machines to me are like balers; they roam the internet harvesting the information and shoot out bales of hay/knowledge in a neat package. Some are rectangular and some are round bales.They can't think they just regurgitate what people have produced. Meanwhile people walk around chewing their cud waiting for the end. Can AI make a funny meme? Meme magic.
yes, when I asked ChatGPT 'how' they got their info' ^ your explanation is similar to the reply...they can search Everything very quickly, and put it into a neat package. but I've found it can be wrong or tainted by wokeness. have to correct it a lot! especially when talking about traveling. it told me we would drive through Nebraska to get to Washington DC...that would be going West for us! and the maps are insane...
woke search engine
ChatGPT. They still can't put the correct amount of fingers on an image. I bet if you asked it how many lakes are in the finger lakes they would say one or two.
One neat thing from Grok:
My friend got three Angus calves from a slightly nefarious situation. She pulled hairs and got raw genetic data on all of them. She didn't think to ask the lab for parental verification or anything else; she just had the raw numbers. I uploaded the screenshots into Grok and within about 45 seconds I had an answer for her: all three calves shared a sire, two were full brother/sister twins (rendering the female twin a likely free martin and not fertile) and the third calf a close cousin. Not the result she wanted, but the tech was cool. No slant from any opinionated websites - just very detailed analytical calculations.
Okay, I'm on X quite a lot and I have yet to see this anywhere.
I just started seeing it this week.... Like it all started at once and ALOT at once. It actually made me think that alot of these were "bots" advertising using this feature.
But what a sad reflection of society, but an unsettling truth and reality about society. Most people need someone to think for them. They outsource most of their thinking on things like that. It's just like redditors who read a post title and immediately jump to the comments to know how to think/ feel about it.
Rather than "empowering" anyone like AI marketers like to claim, it's just a crutch, another way to get brains dependent on it.
The second beast. It doesn't just teach you how to make an image of the antichrist to worship. Or is that exactly what this is.
AI will go the same way as the MSM and search engines. They will start out genuine enough but, as people start relying on them, they will be subverted to reinforce the approved narrative.
It used to be that math students would pride themselves on how quickly they could do complex arithmetic and square roots in their head. Upon the invention of calculators, that human skill was lost. Now, almost nobody practices that, because calculators are ubiquitous and there simply is no need.
The same thing is going to happen to other academic skills now the AI is available. Humans aren't going to need to know how to use proper grammar or spell, or memorize historical events, or skim research papers. All of that, just like doing complex arithmetic in your head, will be lost and unnecessary in future generations. They will have an AI at their command to handle that.
Education will have to adjust, just like math departments adjusted to the reality of calculators. Different skills will be required, such as how to prompt and communicate effectively with your AI to get the answers you need.
People are being steadily removed from reality. When we get to the point that no-one can do anything without using the Internet then they will switch it off and have complete power over all people.
Food used to come from those seeds you planted last year or from the chickens in the yard but now food is a multiple choice question in an Internet app. You tick some boxes, the food arrives at your door and an account you have somewhere else on the Internet gets decremented.
While I would prefer no AI at all, I hope that human culture with AI will evolve to value the extra free time granted by it as a way to pursue better health and food. That includes humans in the future placing cultural importance, not just financial value, on growing their own food. I would welcome the day peers and neighbors were impressed by the produce from our gardens rather than the size of our McMansions. Call me a dreamer, but I have hope that Trump's "the best is yet to come" means something more than just economics and technology. The culture of America needs to be rebuilt before fixing anything else the globalists destroyed.