Artificial Unintelligence - Are Computers Making Us Dumb?

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In this video I talk about the AI we use without thinking much about it and the effect it has on us.

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I've thought about this as well (being a terrible speller myself). My thought around this is that although technology is making is dumber is some regards, it also is allowing us to focus our energy on more deeper, complex, and creative problems by allowing us to not have to remember a bunch of facts and grammar rules etc. When someone asks me a trivia question idk the answer to, I just pull out my phone and answer it there on the spot. Sure i dont commit that to rote memory as well as i would if i had to go to a library and find a book and get an answer that way. But my beleife has always been if you can find the answer on the internet, the question youre asking is not that important.

Interesting point. I wonder if our minds couldn't handle both. We are kind of a use-it-or-lose-it system, so not having to remember a whole bunch of stuff doesn't necessarily free up the resource; rather we just lose the resource - unless it's the exact same resource that does both tasks. Then it just specialises differently.

Take someone that speaks two languages fluently. They are just as fluent in each language as someone that only speaks one of each. That's probably not a very good example :)

ah, who knows. All I know is I can't spell as well as when I was a kid haha.

Not dumb lazy and reliant...

Those are probably better words than "dumb". Especially reliant

Yeah doesn't chrome have a built in spell checker? And if the other browsers don't have built in spell checkers.....why not? Haha. I'm a terrible speller.

You and me both. I was bad to start with, and now I'm abysmal (how many times do you think I typed "abysmal" before getting it right?) :D

I strongly disagree. Computers makes things easier but they are surely not making us dumb. Behind every AI is a complicated series of codes.

AI just don't come to be. Programmers work their ass off to get this things done. As a fellow programmer, I'll like to say. Please speak for yourself sir. Cheers

Yes you are right . Computers are make us dumb gradually and smartphones too .

Yeah, there are many changes comes within past 2-3 decades before 90ies people were so smart and their mind work quick they have power to remember every things.
Decades back our fathers ever Grand fathers IQ was strong.
But After 90s When Most of Tech companies came in existence. Demands of artificial Intelligence increases and demands of our natural Intelligence decreases..

That's why our Mind is not remembering usual things.
Even most of the time I forget about the Current day or dates.
And reason behind this is only Smart Phones and AI.

We can say that AI and Smart Phones are making people dumb.
because we are spending most of our time with Smart Phones and we have habits of these things.
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yeah computers are making us dumb 😂

Growing up as a kid in the 70s and young man in the 80s, we had 7 digit phone numbers, and if you needed to call someone while you were out and about, you would have to find a public phone to call them from. As such, I knew all the phone numbers of my friends, family and other importnt numbers that i may need to call.
Today, the only phone number that i know is my mum's. if i lost my mobile phone whilst out and about, i'd be screwed ^^
Peace.

OMG, I barely remember my own number now. I still remember our first landline number when I was a kid though :)
If I lost my phone (again), it wont be just numbers, I'd be rendered helpless until I get another one and recover the data haha.

Haha, I'm always amazed still at people who don't actually know their own number ^^
Or maybe that's just an excuse that the girls keep using, and I keep falling for it :)
Peace.

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