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No but seriously, does it? There have been a few studies now that show that it doesn't really make work efficiënt. Hell, it seems to have a negative influence on our brains.
Of course we can blame the users and call it a garbage in garbage out scenario, but even with decent data it hallucinates data that doesn't exists.
We don't really know yet just from an empirical standpoint. I theory it seems useful in the narrow areas that it's good at (translation/summarization and any tasks analogous to those).
We have a running joke at work that any problem it can't solve is a skill issue with prompt engineering. At least... I hope it's a joke.
Anecdotally, I've been an infinite times more efficient in some tasks thanks to AI. (perhaps I'm the moron)
Sure, that could very well be. I would welcome a study that compares its negative effect to social media. My guess is that this is worse.
Also browsing through a manual is probably better for our brains that just making queries to a search engine. Just like writing on a paper is better than typing. Meditation is better than watching an episode of a series, or 100 times better than going into an endless youtube frenzy.
I'm all for making great brain health easier to catch, but I'm probably too lazy to do all of those things regurarily.