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Is AI Making Us Dumber?

2025-04-28 Science & Technology
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Get an exclusive 15% discount on Saily eSIM data plans! Download Saily app and use code coldfusion at checkout - or go to https://saily.com/coldfusion AI is everywhere, it's the first technology to do the thinking for us, so what effects does it have on us? In this episode we take a look at how AI have could diminish our mental abilities without us knowing. Show notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fifRcyUFtlKNvd8sVH_IU2iE1bpgxhDWqVVFcGmVyYY/edit?usp=drivesdk Watch or listen to ColdFusion on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1YEwCKoRz8fEDqheXB6UJ1 ColdFusion Music: https://www.youtube.com/@ColdFusionmusic http://burnwater.bandcamp.com Get my book: http://bit.ly/NewThinkingbook ColdFusion Socials: https://discord.gg/coldfusion https://facebook.com/ColdFusionTV https://twitter.com/ColdFusion_TV https://instagram.com/coldfusiontv Created by: Dagogo Altraide Producers: Tawsif Akkas, Dagogo Altraide

Top Comments (10)

@itchylol742 2025-04-28

ChatGPT, please summarize this video for me

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@supreetsahu1964 2025-04-28

"Will AI make us stop thinking?" Bro most people don't think hard in the first place

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@jaws0476 2025-04-30

There are college classes where the assignments are generated by AI, the student uses AI to solve it, and the professor uses AI to grade it...

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@AdvantestInc 2025-04-28

The conversation around cognitive offloading highlights a crucial truth: technology should be a tool for thinking, not a replacement for it. Important reminder to stay actively engaged.

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@dahliasandponies 2025-04-29

As a student actively trying to avoid cognitive offloading, I do want to highlight how extremely difficult it is to hold your own in academia when the world around you is adapted to fast paced AI-driven convenience. As much as I want to produce good quality work, I feel extremely limited by the new expectations placed on us to produce output way faster and more “efficiently”. It’s like no matter how much I try to avoid the use of AI, I am forced to fall back on it because people want things done way faster now, and don’t value work done with time and intent.

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@guidoarena8924 2025-04-28

Everyone was worried about a Skynet style AI dystopia, but turns out it was Idiocracy all along

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@EmmanuelNgwandu 2025-05-01

Someone once said that "2% of people think, 3% of people think that they think, 95% of people would rather die than to think!", this makes a lot of sense now!!

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@coolbuddydude1 2025-04-29

Basically asking a robot to go to the gym for you, the weights will be lifted but you get none of the benefits.

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@mustaphakamara2806 2025-05-01

I knew it was over for us when my friend used ai to write an apology to her own friend I was so mindblown

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@Raphael0654 2025-05-03

There's a line in Tron (1982), "One day programs will begin to think, and humans will stop."

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