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AI cognitive offloading decreases critical thinking abilities study

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16 January 2025 17h56

A new research paper looks at how AI affects people's ability to think critically. It also looks at how age, education level and occupation affected cognitive offloading, critical thinking and AI usage. "As cognitive offloading increases, critical thinking decreases."

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Seven Deadly Sins: Controlling Technology Addiction on Smartphones

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16 January 2025 11h00

The seven deadly sins on your smart phone Control your tech: https://
zurl.co/0EnCi Source: Ralph Aboujaoude Diaz
#technology#app #application #mobile #addiction

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AI Podcast Hosts: Transforming Broadcasting’s Future and Soul

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16 January 2025 7h53

Will AI Podcast Hosts Destroy The Very Soul Of Broadcasting? As #AI-powered #podcast hosts become increasingly sophisticated, from #BCG's innovative #GENE to the digital resurrection of Michael Parkinson, the #broadcasting industry faces a pivotal moment. This exploration of

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Meta’s Pirated Content Experiments Show Minimal Benchmark Improvements

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16 January 2025 7h51

Meta did some experiments whether pirated materials helped, and the bottom line is that it helped a bit on a few of the benchmarks. I don't see numbers worth justifying commercial scale Copyright infringement though…

AI Morality: Humans as Irreplaceable Knowledge Creators

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16 January 2025 1h11

It’s impossible to say what its morality is although I do think it’ll want to keep us around. Because the scarcity in the environment isn’t raw materials, it’s knowledge. And we are the knowledge creators that created it and can create more.

ASI Race: Monopoly Risk and Competitive Release Pressure

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16 January 2025 1h10

My contention is not that it’ll work. My contention is that the chance it might work will drive them to (a) monopolize the ASI and (b) release / obey it *before the next monkey does so.*

Can we actually build artificial superintelligence?

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16 January 2025 1h07

Which was my point at the beginning of this thread. But I’m not sold that we know how to make ASI or whether such a thing is possible anyway.

Advanced AI could delegate human management while exploring universe

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16 January 2025 1h05

It can decide to make you a local God to manage humans (which may still be useful for further scientific creativity), while it goes out and explores the universe. We can’t assume that it will always lie, always kills humans, and that other people always believe both of those.

AI Access Control and Existential Risk of Technological Domination

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16 January 2025 1h01

One choice has a possibility of suicide and a possibility of victory. The other side has a near certainty of suicide. The designers of AIs will realize this and will thus limit access to AIs. And will then use this access to dominate the rest of us.