I thought this was a pretty good video. Frankly, I disagree with what a lot of people in anti-AI communities say about the superiority of doing things the hard way. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the easy way if it gets you the same result, and I don’t think we’ve lost anything meaningful just because, say, the average person no longer has any phone numbers memorized. I think technology making life easier is a good thing.
But, as Rebecca Watson points out, so-called AI doesn’t just replace things like rote memorization. It replaces thinking. That’s dangerous, and therein lies the difference between AI and other tools.
i am glad she’s still hitting home runs. i have listened to her for years but when she left Skeptic’s Guide, i lost track. only catching her when someone else suggests it… mostly because I had to stop consuming so much logically well thought opinions, that made me realize how horrible people are… I still have lots of respect for RW, she’s got a lot of balance to her train of though