Relying on AI is rotting your brain. But here’s what you can do about it | Carly Dober
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Each new tech product is designed to make our lives easier and keep us mindlessly entertained. Switch off: embrace discomfort – and boredom, says psychologist Carly Dober
  • wuffah@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    1984 or Brave New World — Answer? Both, along with a whole bunch of other existential horrors beyond imagining.

  • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    I hate to break it to the anti-AI crowd. But using AI is uncomfortable for ,ost people. Further the interface is very immature and rough around the edges. So you are kinda saying do use AI… And it keeps changing. Just when you think you know how to work with it, they make more changes. Get comfortable being uncomfortable.

  • eicker@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    The real dystopia isn’t AI becoming smarter than us. It’s AI doing the thinking and writing while humans are left solving CAPTCHAs to prove we’re still human. We’ve automated curiosity but somehow kept the cookie banners. Truly a golden age of efficiency.