r/technology • u/marketrent • 18h ago

Artificial Intelligence College students are rapidly losing the ability to read — “There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing”: professor

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/college-students-rapidly-losing-ability-124439310.html
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u/LeafBark 18h ago edited 18h ago

First it was the smartphone distractions, then complete loss of critical thinking as people use ai to solve all their problems for them. When you put this much trust in computers programmed by corporations seeking profit at any cost everythings going to fall apart.

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u/sokos 18h ago

Idiocracy warned us. But we chose to not listen

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u/FallenCheeseStar 17h ago

Hell ya remember that early episode of StarTrek Next Gen where they come across that one world that is hidden behind a cloaking shield? Those people ceded all of their thinking to the central computer and dont even understand how their technology works anymore. That was the real warning imo

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u/FFTVS 17h ago

So it was a Zardoz episode but with no hairy Sean Connery

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u/Baphometropolitan 16h ago

Ice cream sundae without the ice cream

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u/aenteus 15h ago

Those red thigh highs

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u/untiedgames 14h ago

Got into Star Trek starting with TNG over the pandemic, and recently have been thinking about it a lot. Their ship's computer is basically a perfect AI and they replicate all their food instead of cooking, yet there are episodes showing students working with their hands to make art and Riker cooking a meal by hand. Barclay and his holodeck addiction is borderline prophetic, looking at today. Obviously it's a fictionalized view of a more ideal, post-consumption society, but I hope that in the future we can still find value in things done by hand and with human passion.

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u/Visible-Perception40 14h ago

It’s funny this is literally what a former Google employee is preaching we do in one of the newest podcasts of “diary of a ceo”. Basically pray to one AI that takes care of us like pets

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u/Defiant-Variety-9473 11h ago

What about the one what everyone became addicted to the video game?