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A new paper from researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University finds that as humans increasingly rely on generative AI in their work, they use less critical thinking, which can “result in the deterioration of cognitive faculties that ought to be preserved.”
https://www.404media.co/microsoft-study-finds-ai-makes-human-cognition-atrophied-and-unprepared-3/
One of the reason I am personally cautious on Security Copilot and the different startups that write automatic threat hunting queries etc is really simple: I think there's a competitive business advantage to not run off the same cliff as everybody else, at the same time. That's called being Lemmings
What if you hired people who actually knew how to do their jobs well and treat them well and retain them? I think it may work better than replacing all the knowledge workers with Clippy in a suit.
@GossiTheDog but you need to PAY them EVERY MONTH! how obscene
@GossiTheDog I've never quite understood the value proposition of these things for the engineers themselves.
When I'm investigating something, I quite often end up leaping about quite wildly, because I'll see something which triggers "I wonder..." type moments (the _plan_ may be systematic, the process isn't).
You lose the ability to do that _entirely_ as soon as you ask a LLM to look at things for you instead.
@ben @GossiTheDog I agree on this and it's how I go a-hunting around when I see something off.
I can see the value in something doing basic queries upon detection of known elements, but anything new? Nah.
@GossiTheDog if you’re a public company (or VC) and you mention AI, stock line go up, duh.
@GossiTheDog As long as we're all DIFFERENTLY wrong/vulnerable, it's fine. It's once everyone is wrong/vulnerable in the same way that we get a problem.
@GossiTheDog treating people who do their jobs well in a respectable manner does not enhance shareholder value in terms of delivering short-term monetary gains.
@GossiTheDog Not sure if this has any weight for your choice of words. But the myth of lemmings following each other over a cliff was created by an American company in order to make a film more interesting. The crew transported non-migratory lemmings from somewhere else, herded them onto machines that jostled and agited them, then repeatedly herded them to jump off a cliff to their deaths. Because, good footage.
Gotta love Disney.
@GossiTheDog “but we are not a computer company, why should we employ computer people?” Says every company on the planet, which is now a computer company whether they like it or not.