Luis BrancoCEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, LdªCarcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Dear Prya Your question is very interesting Thanks for sharing Has human curiosity ever been extinguished? Contributing to your reflection. AI can help improve human curiosity Saving Changes...
AI exists because of curiosity - people trying to imagine what is possible and then make it happen. Some people are more curious than others. I've met people who seemed to lack all curiosity, and people who stifle creativity. I don't think any of them came by their attitudes on their own, but that's a dark path I don't need to go down, here, and AI probably won't fix it. Saving Changes...
Like any other significant technological advancement, AI can be a target for one's curiosity if one is interested in it. However, like motivation, curiosity comes from within if it has been extinguished within an individual it is unlikely to be rekindled by any external changes.
A lot also depends on the level of curiosity regarding a given target. At the lowest level, it would merely be to be curious enough to learn a little about AI. At the highest levels, it might involve reinventing oneself or one's career path to fully immerse in the advancement journey.
I would say that it can promote curiosity since it can help answer questions that might have been difficult if not impossible to answer without it.
What would interest you more: asking questions about how things work when you can learn more about how they do work, or where all your questions go unanswered? Saving Changes...
I think AI would improve human curiosity by showing interesting forms or resolving problems, and providing wide information about a theme, that motivates humans to investigate and dig deeper in an area of knowledge. Saving Changes...
Financial Management Specialist | US Peace CorpsYaounde, Centre, Cameroon
Human curiosity is the bedrock for innovations and inventions. But I fear that over reliance on AI may destroy the thinking capacity of many Saving Changes...
Robert SedlarProgram Manager, Investment Management and Enterprise Data| Federated HermesPittsburgh, Pa, United States
Interesting concept. It reminds me of when calculators became easily available. Many people were afraid that kids wouldn't be able to do basic math because they can just punch the numbers into them and not have to think about the math itself. Just go to a grocery store and see how some cashiers struggle with getting your change right if the computer is down and you might agree with this assessment. But, at the same time, without calculators, higher levels of math such as calculus and trigonometry would be much harder and less accessible for most people.
My prediction is that AI will have a similar effect on people. Some will overuse it and become reliant on it to the point of losing some of their curiosity. But others will realize that it is just a tool to help them with their curiosity and it will aid them on delving deeper into more topics with less over all time spent on research.
My fear with AI is that, as people become more reliant on it, it will be manipulated to form people's opinions on topics instead of allowing them to form their own opinions based on the raw data. But that is a reason to double check what the AI is presenting to you and not a reason to not use it. Saving Changes...
Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
AI is the tool to help human beings to make curiosity a reality or to instantiate it in real things. Saving Changes...
Thomas WalentaGlobal Project Economy ExpertHackenheim, Germany
Priya,
any disruption like AI (or Corona, or geopolitical games) stimulates our curiosity. First, to understand the disruption itself and second understand its impacts and how to deal with them (avoid or leverage).
Curiosity is a means we have to look into things new to us, are they dangerous, can we eat them, are they future companions? Saving Changes...
Deepika Saxenahttps://www.projectmanagement.com/profile/deepikasaxena| NetEdge Computing Solutions IncJersey City, Nj, United States
Hello Priya, I am sharing my thoughts on your post. I studied AI almost 30 years back, and developed an expert system for PC Repairs. I started using ChatGPT only a few months ago, and the more I use it the more curious I become on how it responds so quickly and so accurately. At this point, I think there are millions of ideas floating and apps getting created around AI. Certainly it has rekindled curiosity of developers and of users who are optimistically looking forward to the use cases of AI in future. Saving Changes...
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