The only one actually relevant to “cognitive decline” is the second, do we know what the math questions actually were?

Also I wasn’t making an anology, I’m seriously asking if we’d see the same drop-off, as I think the root of the problem is moreso that humans will generally choose to use less effort rather then more, so any tool that reduces effort might see the same amount of drop off in end result when taken away.

Going with analogies though, people having cars mean less people learning about/using horses/carriages/bikes and as cars are increasingly more complex and less repairable, less people put in the effort to learn how to fix them if something goes wrong.

Ultimately though I have to wonder what does that really matter in the long term? Did people stop doing/understanding math once calculators became common?

One of the points the paper makes is people who used it to help rather then solve the problem for them performed better once it was taken away, which adheres with my own observations on how people use certain tools vs seek to understand how those tool work and deeper their understanding. However again, is it really a problem that a majority of Americans (for example) don’t know how to change the oil on their car? Does that actually indicate they’re less intelligent or unable to rationalize/logically process information? Or do they generally put the effort that would be put into learning how their car works into other efforts.

Unfortunately I think many are simply too burned out with day to day life to care about much learning at all, which is a much larger issue IMO.

Though I will say I do think AI/LLMs will only reinforce that behavior, I’m not sure if that’ll be all bad or really all that different then the existing status quo prior to their spread.

Edit: We could talk about the economic impact it will have, but the root cause is the same as all the other wealth inequality, and I can easily forsee how LLMs could be much more equitable rather then used as vehicles for enrichment.

On the math test, I’d be curious if a calculator was provided instead then taken away half-way through. Would we see the same drop off?

That’s the vista start button lul

You can do it locally now pretty easily depending on your use ass and hardware, huggingface has all the models you’d need and use something like llama-swap

But everyone on Lemmy said LLMs had no usecases

Depends on how much quantization, but still fairly beefy, couldn’t run it on my homelab with a 3080ti for example.

I generally use smaller 8-12b models and they’re alright depending on the task.

But they also should visit and be able to interact with prisons lmao.

Proxmox as another option

You don’t think they’d happily target Lemmy if it were larger? It’s still “social media” to them

Except I’m sure they’d charge out the ass and they don’t seem to put any effort into gaming 🤷

Why did you call them LAMP?

I had a friend who gamed on a Mac for a while during that period, most games did work for her.

I do think the M series chips set it back a bit because most games aren’t targeting ARM, so you have to use Rosetta to emulate reducing performance

Does proxmox count? Then I run lots of docker containers in lxcs

I think their motive was internal usage and classic embrace/extend/extinguish, along with github was generally well liked amongst its users, so maybe gives MS a bit of a boost on that front.

I can not imagine they knew what was coming with LLMs but I definitely could be wrong.

Oh and they offer it to businesses so it’s another feather in their MS365 ecosystem cap.

They bought it 8 years ago lol

As someone who uses the slop machine, completely agree, it might help improve them further and if you don’t want to use it, move to forgejo or similar (I did that too) and if you still want AI help, try learning how to host your own locally if your GPU can swing it.

They mean because games mainly work on windows first, not so much that gamers specifically want windows.

This is such an odd response, nothing of substance

I apologize for responding partially dismissively to your obviously dismissive op.

I was also being serious though, most people who only mildy use AI don’t know how to optimize it with things like skills, normies just chatgpt/claude/copilot directly in the literal “chat” not using additional tooling like skills/sub-agents/mcp servers.