Generative AI is addictive, there could be different reasons for this phenomenon.
- It simplifies and speeds up tasks massively. It gets you to the goal quickly, giving you a dopamine hit.
- It reduces (constructive) friction. But (perhaps unknowingly) shift it to administrative friction.
- If every solution is just one question away why bother trying to do it yourself?
Once you start using AI, you will become more and more reliant on it. Offloading more tasks to these models. With this incredibly strong hammer, everything will suddenly become a nail. You want to quickly build or fix something, thus you grab towards this technology.
Whilst this is a great and true innovation, it also comes with the downside that you outsource your thinking, which will wither your critical thinking capabilities if you never solve anything yourself any more.
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Whilst computers are a bicycle for the mind, LLMs are rockets.
They will get you there, very fast. But you’ll no longer exercise your brain. It no longer amplifies your inherit abilities.
It’s like a constant voice in the back of your head, ‘You could use an AI for that’.