[NickC25]

I think AI can make people better thinkers for sure! Look at what AlphaZero did for Chess - it basically showed that humanistic ideas can still thrive at the highest levels of computer chess (think like intentionally hanging a piece, dynamic positional play, trapping opposition pieces, sacrifices that don't pay off for several turns, etc...) rather than brute forcing a position. I'm sure the top players all learned quite a lot about the game through watching AlphaZero, and I'm sure they've all implemented those lessons into their own games.

[alcoholic_byte]

I don't know. With Chess, you have an antagonistic relationship. You are motivated to overcome the AI player.

With this ChatGPT non-sense it is symbiotic and we rely on the results gotten no matter how we got them. Or do you think calculators make you better at computations in your head or a better mathematician?

I think the problem I have with this headline is the tacit meaning of better. The results might be better yes, but YOU are not different.

I have spent years polishing my English, reading Orwell, Harpers, Lapham, Poe and others. I spent hours arguing about the minute differences of intricate grammatical structures. This is nothing an AI can help me with. It can only be gotten through a teacher and arguing, thinking and brooding over differences in the solitude of ones chambers, NOT by conversing with an AI that always delivers bespoken solutions as tasty morsels lacking the bitterness of labor as the underlying creation of the solution is lost.

Unlike with a teacher, it cannot be gotten from an AI either because the AI is a generator void of the deeper understanding of what is going on.

And the same can be said about thinking. Writing is nothing but a vociferated thought put on paper.