AI has come to make people become lazy

[Etranger]

My friend works as a metallurgical engineer and he has to calculate metal structures for an hour. And before that, he always had to keep a lot of books and tables, which he refers to when calculating strength. But now he told me that in addition to his calculations, he also asks ChatGPT to make a verification calculation that will allow him to check with his calculations and find errors there. Is it laziness? No. But I think that when he stops doing the calculations himself and only forgives the bot about it, then it will be too lazy.

I would call it not laziness, but rather recklessness and even irresponsibility. Obviously, your friend has an extremely responsible job that far from everyone can perform, and a great deal depends on the correctness of its execution. And if he leaves it entirely to artificial intelligence, ceasing to verify the results of its calculations, this could lead to extremely severe consequences that, again, far from everyone is capable of fixing.

[Satofan44]

As you can see these days many people train their children to be zombies of consumption at the earliest age possible, I have seen so many toddlers in public endlessly scrolling Tik Tok and other brain dumbing applications. Surely giving them access to AI will make things better.

This is actually the most sensitive topic for me, because I am a mom to a 3-year-old boy, and all these things are happening right before my eyes. I do not give my child a phone for his own independent use. He does not watch cartoons at all; he can only look at a few photos and videos of himself from my phone, and this time is extremely limited for him. Plus, we do it together, meaning I (or another family member) always control this process. Not once in 3 years have I given him a phone just to shut him up or distract him, even when it would have helped me with something as basic as going to the restroom.

But out of my entire social circle, I am the only one who is so principled on this matter. I come to pick up my son from kindergarten and see other parents handing phones to their kids the second they see them. That is, they are even dressing the child to take them home while the little one scrolls the screen or watches YouTube. It is terrible, and I feel so sad and sick to my stomach about what I witness every day. And I am terrified that at some point, I won't be able to shield my child from the influence of such an environment.

That is where you see this becoming a big issue. Since we are forced to be "connected" to each other through technology and institutions, what others decide to do no longer only affects them it also negatively affects you at least to some extent (and in many cases to a very large extent). As you can see, parenting has never been lazier and worse but since you are a parent yourself their decisions are affecting you as well. If all or almost all children are phone zombies, who are supposed to be the friends of your child (a child must have friends among its peers for healthy development, it can not be replaced through other relationships)? How can you safely let him stay in some child gathering with the assurance that there won't be all left to just endlessly indulge in technology? Similar with the case of AI. We've seen some mild cases of bullying using deepfakes, but giving access to others gives them the means to acquire information of hurting themselves and others that otherwise would have not been available.

You can consider the time before the internet. How would some random kid or teenager be able to find information on some dangerous things, whether weapons or chemicals and so forth? It was very hard and in many cases impossible from a practical standpoint, most children did not even know that these things existed. These days, the zombies have become extremely fragile as their dopamine receptors have been fried. This creates a terrible cycle of dependence similar to the cycle that is found with a drug abuser, they are becoming short-tempered, narcissistic, depressed, angry. We've already seen what "AI" has done, many people are losing basic abilities, some delusional ones even started to have relationships with "LLMs".

Any user that is dismissing the issues is delusional or malicious at this point.

[Parveziqbal123]

I don't think so, because AI is sharpening our thinking ability. We use different tools to make  things easy. We often use Gemini to make sketches, diagrams and photos to amuse each other.  Artificial intelligence no doubt impacted on jobs but also making things easy. We can make logos and art , ask any question anytime. Response us quickly, we don't have to go in markets for searching. I would say AI is a beautiful thing that make things easier in this modern era.

[Jaweria parveen]

I don't think so, because AI is sharpening our thinking ability. We use different tools to make  things easy. We often use Gemini to make sketches, diagrams and photos to amuse each other.  Artificial intelligence no doubt impacted on jobs but also making things easy. We can make logos and art , ask any question anytime. Response us quickly, we don't have to go in markets for searching. I would say AI is a beautiful thing that make things easier in this modern era.

This is the loss for us, when we do not use our abilities and brain, we will remain its slaves. Whenever we need something, we only call the name of AI and by talking to it, when we solve many problems in a day through it, one day it will come that we will lose the power of our brain, due to which we can also become mentally ill. AI does not have feelings like humans, due to which it cannot understand people in the way they have emotions. The advantage of AI is that it can search for us as soon as possible, but this does not mean that we should do everything with it. We have the power to search for ourselves, but we do not use our own brain in it, and that is why today everyone has AI on their tongue.

[fruktik]

AI is no different from everything else in this regard. Some people will use it wisely and see it as a tool to optimize their own resources, freeing up time and energy for more creative and ambitious tasks. But for the majority, AI is simply a toy, and quite a dangerous one at that, as it replaces the need to do things on your own. And what follows is a substitution, both of concepts and of actions.

People have forgotten how to think for themselves. Now AI does it for them. If things continue like this, humanity will find itself in a precarious position, as most mental processes will be transferred to this technology. And when will the mind begin to evolve? It must evolve, right? And how will this process occur if AI replaces it all? I'm a little afraid for society. Is it heading down the same path it took when it invented this intelligence?

[Dewali]

 I think AI was Created help human to think faster and also make thinks easier just like other innovation which has been created throughout history. It all depends on how one tend to use them . It  has shown that throughout history new innovation did not just reduces job but rather create another job opportunity and also increased productivity across the economy . So I don't think AI will make Human lazy rather it will enhanced human in making fast progress in technological and industrial evolution faster any human minds would do .

[Etranger]

AI is no different from everything else in this regard. Some people will use it wisely and see it as a tool to optimize their own resources, freeing up time and energy for more creative and ambitious tasks. But for the majority, AI is simply a toy, and quite a dangerous one at that, as it replaces the need to do things on your own. And what follows is a substitution, both of concepts and of actions.

People have forgotten how to think for themselves. Now AI does it for them. If things continue like this, humanity will find itself in a precarious position, as most mental processes will be transferred to this technology. And when will the mind begin to evolve? It must evolve, right? And how will this process occur if AI replaces it all? I'm a little afraid for society. Is it heading down the same path it took when it invented this intelligence?

It is unlikely that the word 'must' is appropriate here. The brain evolves, human beings develop, but this happens and has always happened because of certain hindering circumstances, because some things were impossible for a human being. There is a very interesting discipline, philosophical anthropology, and there is a representative there, Plessner, who builds his theory on the idea that the human being is a sick animal, because he is born absolutely incapable of maintaining his vital activity even at an elementary level.

And this is precisely why a human being becomes social, because he is incapable of being autonomous. He doesn't know how to hunt, doesn't know how to survive, doesn't even know how to keep warm in winter. And it is precisely because of these limitations that the brain begins to develop: because otherwise, the human being would not have survived. And so, only by virtue of the impossibility of presenting animal competition to other species, he begins to develop his only advantage, namely the brain. And all this happens due to difficulties and limitations, and not due to a great desire.

[ndutndut]

I don't think so, because AI is sharpening our thinking ability. We use different tools to make  things easy. We often use Gemini to make sketches, diagrams and photos to amuse each other.  Artificial intelligence no doubt impacted on jobs but also making things easy. We can make logos and art , ask any question anytime. Response us quickly, we don't have to go in markets for searching. I would say AI is a beautiful thing that make things easier in this modern era.

This is what other friends mean the presence of AI can make you lazy and less productive if used incorrectly. AI can make things easier for us because it allows us to think further, faster and more easily. For example asking questions, creating logos, etc., but if AI becomes the main pillar in pursuing something or assisting you in your work it has the potential to make you lazy and uncreative.

If you ask AI for everything you'll end up being lazy to think for yourself. Asking AI to write assignments or reports will make you lazy to do research and manual writing. Moreover, if you accept answers from AI without verifying them, this will dull your brain, ultimately leading to dependence on AI, which will diminish your creativity and discipline. In essence AI can make us lazy if we use it as a substitute rather than a tool.

[Nothingtodo]

I was using one of the AI tools to do some graphic design and it came out so beautiful as a result. I was very happy with the result I got through AI because creating it, it wasn't stressful and the result was productive.

 Normally, if you give me a computer device to do graphic design I wont be able to perform it better but with AI it was success. Since AI can give me good graphic design, I dont think it will have that urge to go learn graphic design.  I think AI already have the result of what people are supposed to do with their hands. There wont be reason to learn or to work because AI can give people what they want without stress.

This time is completely full of modern technology and people use technology-based technology from the moment they wake up until they go to sleep. AI technology is the most widely used technology at present. This technology is capable of performing human tasks in a way that is more accurate and faster than humans. Currently, most people are afraid of losing their jobs only because of AI technology. Although people are now doing their daily work through AI technology and have lived their lives lazily. However, in the future, if AI technology replaces human tasks and lays off a certain part of human work, a large part of the world will suffer from the problem of unemployment. It is certainly predicted that the use of modern technology will increase the problem of unemployment.

[STT]

Its really about efficiency and if you like convenience since the task was already possible in many cases ten years ago.   The difference is time taken to do the task and the availability of the tool to match the skills of the user, it does make what used to be a specialist performance into a more general product.
  AI is still artificial or magic perhaps as the user doesn't have to understand all that is occurring to process the unit of work to completion.   There is some still level of skill required to start the automation it just doesn't have to be repeated only done once in some cases hence this whole idea is very productive compared to the old method, it should clearly end up a positive imo.

[Satofan44]

Its really about efficiency and if you like convenience since the task was already possible in many cases ten years ago.   The difference is time taken to do the task and the availability of the tool to match the skills of the user, it does make what used to be a specialist performance into a more general product.
  AI is still artificial or magic perhaps as the user doesn't have to understand all that is occurring to process the unit of work to completion.   There is some still level of skill required to start the automation it just doesn't have to be repeated only done once in some cases hence this whole idea is very productive compared to the old method, it should clearly end up a positive imo.

It has already been well established in this thread that the majority of humans do not need more convenience, they need more of the long and difficult way. Most people are fat and dumb, so stop giving them excuses to become even more fat and stupid. When tools that come with high risk are presented to a mostly unprepared population, the results are usually overwhelmingly negative. This is why we have high taxes, restrictions, permits, bans, and similar for many things because the vast majority of people are not able to behave appropriately when given access to said things. The same has already been proven to be happening with AI, so users on this forum need to stop giving excuses for things that are objectively more dangerous than they are beneficial.

Only the highly trained specialist that is actually enhancing his work with a tool like this is reaping benefits, people using LLM to write emails that are no longer able to compose an email on their own are not reaping benefits -- they are only reaping negatives. Learn the difference.

[Mame89]

I think AI was Created help human to think faster and also make thinks easier just like other innovation which has been created throughout history. It all depends on how one tend to use them . It  has shown that throughout history new innovation did not just reduces job but rather create another job opportunity and also increased productivity across the economy . So I don't think AI will make Human lazy rather it will enhanced human in making fast progress in technological and industrial evolution faster any human minds would do .

That's how it should be, and you're right. Technology will always evolve over time and this isn't new. Even since Google inception many have said it will make people lazy. But over time technology isn't just a tool it's shaping the way our brains work. AI is no exception only the current version is much more powerful. So, in essence if you leave it unchecked you'll become lazier and even fall behind.

If we tend to hand over all our thinking abilities to AI, this is wrong. Because when we become overly dependent on AI, our brains will become less likely to practice deep thinking, problem-solving or remembering. The result will be a decline in critical thinking, memory and creativity. This is similar to muscles weakening from lack of exercise or activity. So, it could be said that if you frequently ask AI for instant answers you'll likely have difficulty thinking independently, which will result in feelings of inadequacy, a loss of innovation and creativity. So there is nothing wrong with what you said, it's just that if you depend on AI, it becomes a problem instead of wanting to create new job opportunities and also increase productivity what happens is that it makes you lazier.

[Etranger]

Only the highly trained specialist that is actually enhancing his work with a tool like this is reaping benefits, people using LLM to write emails that are no longer able to compose an email on their own are not reaping benefits -- they are only reaping negatives. Learn the difference.

All of this would be possible, I mean such focus of attention, if the world were not currently ruled by the desire to monetize absolutely everything. Goods, services, travel, lifestyle, and many other things are being monetized. And AI simply could not break out of this concept, because the investors who poured a ton of money into it simply would not have done so if they knew from the start that this tool would not go to the masses and pay off their investments. People invest now not because they believe in some idea, but because they believe that it will sell. Even if you have an excellent socially oriented idea, but you can't make money on it, will there be many investors found who would be interested in investing in it like that?

[Abiky]

It has already been well established in this thread that the majority of humans do not need more convenience, they need more of the long and difficult way. Most people are fat and dumb, so stop giving them excuses to become even more fat and stupid. When tools that come with high risk are presented to a mostly unprepared population, the results are usually overwhelmingly negative. This is why we have high taxes, restrictions, permits, bans, and similar for many things because the vast majority of people are not able to behave appropriately when given access to said things. The same has already been proven to be happening with AI, so users on this forum need to stop giving excuses for things that are objectively more dangerous than they are beneficial.

Only the highly trained specialist that is actually enhancing his work with a tool like this is reaping benefits, people using LLM to write emails that are no longer able to compose an email on their own are not reaping benefits -- they are only reaping negatives. Learn the difference.

Define "dangerous". Because as far as I know, AI is heavily-regulated by both governments and the companies behind it. AI will only become dangerous when it reaches self-awareness. We're very far from seeing this become a reality. For now, AI remains a tech reliant on human input to survive. Humans give it the instructions (prompt) and AI will give an output (answer) as a result.

Every tech is designed to make our life simple. People are lazy because they choose to be lazy. Not because they're forced to be like that. You can use AI and still be a productive person. Despite the hype, I think AI is going to simply vanish. It will stay with us for a very long time.

[Satofan44]

Only the highly trained specialist that is actually enhancing his work with a tool like this is reaping benefits, people using LLM to write emails that are no longer able to compose an email on their own are not reaping benefits -- they are only reaping negatives. Learn the difference.

All of this would be possible, I mean such focus of attention, if the world were not currently ruled by the desire to monetize absolutely everything. Goods, services, travel, lifestyle, and many other things are being monetized. And AI simply could not break out of this concept, because the investors who poured a ton of money into it simply would not have done so if they knew from the start that this tool would not go to the masses and pay off their investments. People invest now not because they believe in some idea, but because they believe that it will sell. Even if you have an excellent socially oriented idea, but you can't make money on it, will there be many investors found who would be interested in investing in it like that?

There are many incentives and issues with the current world that are making correct and healthy behaviors difficult. The main reason people are fat does not necessarily lie on personal responsibility, sure they are mentally very weak but even if such people were given an environment where no junk food was present at all, no snacks, no added sugar to every single possible thing many of them would probably stay fit. I argue here that these AI tools are yet another example of something that will push more people in the wrong direction than the number of people it will push into the right direction, thus making it a net negative for humanity.

Define "dangerous". Because as far as I know, AI is heavily-regulated by both governments and the companies behind it. AI will only become dangerous when it reaches self-awareness. We're very far from seeing this become a reality. For now, AI remains a tech reliant on human input to survive. Humans give it the instructions (prompt) and AI will give an output (answer) as a result.

You need to be able to differentiate between top-down and bottom-up processes and perspectives. When we consider AI as a danger in terms of self-awareness, you are only considering a valid top-down perspective. You are missing the whole other side of the picture. The danger that I talk about (which does not invalidate the top-down, it complements it) comes from the bottom-up and impacts on the individual, and with that it creates an impact on society as a whole but from the bottom-up.

Every tech is designed to make our life simple. People are lazy because they choose to be lazy. Not because they're forced to be like that. You can use AI and still be a productive person. Despite the hype, I think AI is going to simply vanish. It will stay with us for a very long time.

This part is not entirely correct. Human psyche is very weak and vulnerable, it is subject to be exploited in any ways. Most of these systems are designed in ways that abuse these things such as social media apps, the same is the case with junk food and pretty much anything that is heavily monetized in the current world. Most decisions made by most people are not their own, that is an illusion of free-choice. They are almost on auto pilot mode and do what their addictions and compulsions make them do.

No healthy human would spent a significant chunk of his life on activities that objectively only hurt him, whether it is using social media or using tools like AI in an appropriate way. But a human that is manipulated through their weaknesses would, and that human would even advertise to the world that it is making free choices. 

[Suleiman the Magnificent]

I was using one of the AI tools to do some graphic design and it came out so beautiful as a result. I was very happy with the result I got through AI because creating it, it wasn't stressful and the result was productive.

 Normally, if you give me a computer device to do graphic design I wont be able to perform it better but with AI it was success. Since AI can give me good graphic design, I dont think it will have that urge to go learn graphic design.  I think AI already have the result of what people are supposed to do with their hands. There wont be reason to learn or to work because AI can give people what they want without stress.

Technology is like that. If you use technology to make yourself lazy, it will help you far too much and you will literally turn into a koala  But if you use technology to make your life easier and to enhance your life's adventure, then you will truly see its real benefit.

[ruykeri]

I don't think so, because AI is sharpening our thinking ability. We use different tools to make  things easy. We often use Gemini to make sketches, diagrams and photos to amuse each other.  Artificial intelligence no doubt impacted on jobs but also making things easy. We can make logos and art , ask any question anytime. Response us quickly, we don't have to go in markets for searching. I would say AI is a beautiful thing that make things easier in this modern era.

You have still talked about the skills of entry level AI. The level of AI has still gone to a very high level. Now all the work is being automated through AI agents, which is destroying human creativity. I myself would not have thought so deeply a few days ago. Suppose you make a picture with Gemini and upload it to social media. For this, you go to your Gemini and write a prompt to download the picture and upload it to your social media account. This is what you have done with the help of AI. But if you create an AI agent, then you just give the command and the AI ​​agent will make the picture itself, download it and upload it to social media. You can even create videos and run activities on social media in this way. Through API, they will use many AI platforms at the same time and will continue to follow your commands according to the platform as per their convenience. Nothing much needs to be done here. People can get their own work and  assistants to do their work with just voice commands.

[Youngrebel]

You have still talked about the skills of entry level AI. The level of AI has still gone to a very high level. Now all the work is being automated through AI agents, which is destroying human creativity. I myself would not have thought so deeply a few days ago. Suppose you make a picture with Gemini and upload it to social media. For this, you go to your Gemini and write a prompt to download the picture and upload it to your social media account. This is what you have done with the help of AI. But if you create an AI agent, then you just give the command and the AI ​​agent will make the picture itself, download it and upload it to social media. You can even create videos and run activities on social media in this way. Through API, they will use many AI platforms at the same time and will continue to follow your commands according to the platform as per their convenience. Nothing much needs to be done here. People can get their own work and  assistants to do their work with just voice commands.

I do not think human creativity will disappear just because of AI what may disappear may be the need for human to spend time on carrying out so much experiments before creating when AI is there to help. Creativity itself is not only about producing something but it is also about having basic and original knowledge about, understanding, and creating something that connects with other people AI can actually help a lot but with the help of a human it make more sense for example our AI can generate so many images or videos, but it still needs human direction and thats just the simple truth.

[MarjorieZimmermanGinger]

Normally, if you give me a computer device to do graphic design I wont be able to perform it better but with AI it was success. Since AI can give me good graphic design, I dont think it will have that urge to go learn graphic design.  I think AI already have the result of what people are supposed to do with their hands. There wont be reason to learn or to work because AI can give people what they want without stress.

We live in a time of technological sophistication and people will undoubtedly seek ways to make their work easier and the presence of AI is being utilized well by some to assist them. Laziness may have nothing to do with AI because even though AI is quite sophisticated, many people still don't do manual work. AI should be able to assist someone in their work, although it has its own weaknesses that need to be considered. AI can handle almost all human tasks, but not all of them can be done correctly. AI is a sophisticated technology and when someone can utilize it well, I don't think it constitutes laziness.