I like this analogy. "Some of you may remember the Apple ads that emphasized the computer as a 'bicycle for the mind.' GenAI is not like a bicycle for the mind. Instead, it's more like an automobile." Or, says Mark Guzdial, "As Paul Kirschner recently wrote, GenAI is not cognitive offloading. It's outsourcing. We don't think about how to do the tasks that we ask GenAI to do. As the recent Anthropic study showed, you don't learn about the libraries that your code uses when GenAI is generating the code for you (press release, full ArXiv paper)." Maybe. But it depends on how you use AI - there is a 'bicycle method' (to coin a phrase) when using AI, which is what (I think) I do - making sure I understand what's happening each step of the way. As Guzdial says, "Generative AI is a marshmallow test. We will have to figure out that we need to exercise our minds, even if GenAI could do it easier, faster, and in some cases, better." See also: To Trust or to Think: Cognitive Forcing Functions Can Reduce Overreliance on AI in AI-assisted Decision-making.
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