New Microsoft study finds that using generative AI at work makes employees' critical thinking skills "atrophied and unprepared"
https://www.404media.co/microsoft-study-finds-ai-makes-human-cognition-atrophied-and-unprepared-3/
https://www.404media.co/microsoft-study-finds-ai-makes-human-cognition-atrophied-and-unprepared-3/
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(For legal reasons this uh oh is a personal opinion and not the opinion of my employer)
https://bsky.app/profile/kastor.sh/post/3lhju33yitk2p
Did I get that right?
319 people self reported that they are getting dumber because they aren't being smart! Microsoft to the rescue!
Seems like they are admitting to not doing their jobs.
If their work is sub par, that's on them.
The "atrophied" quote was just a summary of a 1983 article on automation generally.
"Microsoft study mentions in introduction that a previous paper from the 1980s concluded that automation leads to atrophy. Study then does an online survey. People report feeling like they think less when using GenAI."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironies_of_Automation
genai would just be the latest tool to seal the deal
That's terrifying.
lemme ask chatGPT
tasks for knowledge workers". It's about changes and how to train workforce for them