In the same way you might use Google Maps to get everywhere and not know how to get there otherwise, AI might cause people to stop learning things they would have otherwise had to learn.

The argument makes a lot of sense to me but this particular example somewhat falls flat. When I started my new job, I used Google Maps to learn the optimal route for a couple days until I had it committed to memory. Then I didn't need it anymore.

For a place I am going to exactly once and then probably never again however, why would I want that information to take up valuable brain space? In a pre Google maps world, you spend probably twice as long taking a less optimal route that goes in that general direction, then driving around the area for a bit longer until you hopefully stumble upon what it is youre looking for.

I mean you’re right, but I think there will be some time before everything becomes so integrated that we really do t have to learn anymore. Right now for example we have good translation, but learning a language is still immensely helpful when you’re trying to communicate in another country. I think there will be things like that for quite a while.

I don't understand why they're trying to feed AI everything. There's too much garbage on the internet and elsewhere. If they can't make a good LLM with academic articles, Wikipedia, and non fiction books, newspapers, and magazines then they need to go back to the drawing board.

AI will definitely change the quantity and quality of the misinformation. Remember how effective Cambridge Analytica was? I'm guessing everyone in the non-EU country of England probably does.

The comparison is like fighting in a street fight against an opponent bigger then you, now with the looming threat of having to fight a professionally trained Ivan Drago-esque behemoth dosed to shit on HGH and steroids.

This is my big concern about AI. Not that it's going to be making the next citizen kane or painting the mona lisa, because as we've seen already people don't give a shit about any of that. Instead it's going to be mass producing and delivering propaganda posters, memes and posts with such overwhelming severity that we'll be stuck in a Russia-esque level of hypernormalization of falsehoods that we'll eventually become completely cynical and nihilistic in regards to finding the truth, choosing instead to side with the falsehoods that match our personal biases.