Re: Strategy on the Decline

On Sat, 25 May 2024 18:39:08 -0500, Lane Larson
<lnlarson@stoat.inhoin.edu> wrote:

Rin Stowleigh wrote:
>

Growing up Googling "How Do I Do This Or That" has not exactly
exercised their brains, and upcoming AI capabilities isn't going to
improve that situation at all.

>
I don't share your lack of faith in AI. 

I think you misunderstood my post... it wasn't a lack of faith in the
capabilities of AI I was expressing. 

It was my lack of faith in the evolution of the human intellect to not
become increasingly reliant on it as the solution to everything.

In my line of work I regularly deal with some pretty complex software
engineering conundrums.  I see the Gen Zs and the Millenials
frantically Googling or looking for solutions on Chat GPT to save the
day every time the going gets rough, because it's easier to to that
than it is to solution the entire problem using nothing but their
brain.

For someone like me who started developing software in 1980 when
search engines to tough problems were not an option, it was the lack
of creature comfort that helped develop a problem-solver's brain.

Thanks to search engines, the need to develop a problem-solver's brain
has deferred to basic clerical typing skills.  Bringing that idea into
AI -- whenever "prompt engineering" is described as a skill of the
future in an AI driven world, you can kind of see the writing on the
wall.

I've heard some say AI will do to critical thinking what the
calculator did to math skills and what spell and grammar checkers did
to the need to teach basic literacy. 

But it's actually much worse than that, because AI only ever looks
back, it cannot look forward.  And the thinking ability of generations
to come will be step-locked in same.