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One “must” for this week: Thoughts on thinking
Is AI depriving us of the learning journey?
The day I discovered I could use ChatGPT to program with Python, I could not sleep.
I could finally do something that I had always wanted to do.
And I never had the time before because it was such a time investment.
Since then, I have written thousands of lines of code.
So many little apps that help me in my day-to-day automation.
But is there a dark side to that?
Does using AI make our brain and learning muscles atrophy?
This is what Dustin Curtis shares in a recent blog post
“But now, when my brain spontaneously forms a tiny sliver of a potentially interesting concept or idea, I can just shove a few sloppy words into a prompt and almost instantly get a fully reasoned, researched, and completed thought.”
I can see the danger..
I can also think of how using Google Maps has made me forget how to navigate without it.
But can we avoid that?
To me, it (still) feels that what we get is more than what we lose in the process.
What are your thoughts?
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See you next Saturday,
Roberto
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Which little apps helped you in your day-to-day automation? 🧐🤔