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I'm in Canada ..... but we're all on track for Idiocracy in the next few decades.
For the past 40 years education everywhere has been dumbed down to the point where many schools just push students out just to maintain numbers to keep up funding.
Between dumbed down education and AI making us even dumber .... we're all in trouble over the next few decades.
Add microplastics causing inflammations to the brain to the list
Yep, college profs are regularly failing students for being illiterate at the top 10 uni my partner works at. We had a doom and gloom conversation about this after an event recently. These students should be the cream of the crop. Profs say the decline predated but seems accelerated by the covid pandemic. As you said, they say administration had been pressuring profs to keep averages up so some of the decline has been obfuscated by padded data (grades). Remedial reading classes are needed even at top universities. Students use AI for both papers and presentations and profs are worried that they are skipping the steps that train your brain to think deeply and analytically.
No, YOU will make your children stupid. And then blame it on the external factors
AI is making people across the board stupid
People are getting stupid without the help of AI, it’s just putting gas on the fire!
I once asked Google's AI "How to inflate a foldable phone"
I had hoped that it would respond with something like 'That is not possible, but here are a few related links to help you'
Instead, it gave me what otherwise almost seemed like a half mix between legit instructions of how to inflate a car tire, except all instances of 'car tire' were merely replaced with 'foldable phone', yet also seemed like it understood where on most phones the charger plugs up.. 🤦
Granted this was in early Google AI beta testing, and apparently it has since learned better, but still that was enough for me to realize how truly dumb AI can be.
I do not use AI anymore, unless I want a good dumb laugh..