Artificial Intelligence is "thinking" for us?
In the last seven days, many of us may have gone to the internet, opened a social media app or specifically shopped online, and, without even trying, we may have used AI in some capacity. That is how pervasive these Large Language Models (LLMs) have become, and with that degree of presence, it is pertinent to question – “How do LLM-based AI models affect us?” The polarity of the discourse about using A.I .- with one group touting it as an omnipotent being which would replace people in almost all (if not all) fields of work and the other resorting to shaming people who use it- has made it difficult to have nuanced conversations about it. But that makes it all the more important to study the long-term impacts of AI on us as individuals and how we function as a society. Let’s Understand Critical Thinking Critical Thinking is our ability to make decisions through understanding and analysing information after properly organizing them. People who think critically can not only evaluate the...