Well here is a link to an article about an aspect of AI interaction with us Humans, that most of us probably have never thought about. Including me.
If you aren't familiar with the Dunning-Kreuger effect, don't worry, the article gives a pretty succinct basic explanation. I used to call that effect: "When dumb people learn to read." Because some folks learn something new...and then think they know it all. Lots of "Talking heads" and Influencers...fall under this spell.
Take Viruses for example. Most people can't name the 21-26 varieties of Viruses that affect Humans ...and those are all categorized by Medical criteria. But the Virosphere has over 260 families, and is growing as we learn more.
We aren't even sure if Viruses, are alive. At least as we know "life." Yet some Podcaster, who hasn't taken a single course in Viruses, Bacteria (which Viruses also affect), BioChemistry, or a course in Pathogens. Not even a Human pathogen course to narrow it down. They can't name the steps in the Krebs cycle, or the Embden-Meyerhof pathway (Glycolysis) which is how most living things get energy. Yet they "read" one book, to an article, and then talk as if they know what they are talking about. Forget about the startling ways that viruses coat themselves with sugar, recess their protein receptors, or hide under lipid shells to keep the immune system from finding them.
Entire Disciplines and Fields of Study have dedicated decades of research with truly smart folks who have given up decades of their lives to just find one more piece of the puzzle...and yet, the talking heads think they know what they are talking bout...because they talked to someone just as ignorant as they are...and agreed.
Well, it turns out AI makes us think we are smarter than we are. Just like those folks. I am guilty of it too. Never realized it. But having so much information at the touch of a button on my iPhone made me mistake information for knowledge. I don't know more...I just have more information.
I will give you a simple example. One of my friends in an engineer. You show him a simple curve on a graph...and he can glance at that and say:
"Oh, dear, we have a problem."
Because he actually knows that that curve means both mathematically and for its information about that particular piece of engineering. Most of us would have no clue that curve shouldn't look like that. Nor do we know the tons of math behind its creation.
So this Article (still up for peer review) hints that our AI feeds our ego to think we are smarter than we are. Just like women have been doing for us men throughout the course of History. LOL
I know girls who can tear down a camshaft, and instal a four barrel carburetor ...who pretend to be helpless with tools, around a guy they like. LOL
And I know some Special Forces guys who pretend they have no idea how to fight. You will never know how good they are until it is too late. So yeah, some folks don't fall for it. But I did.
I am much better now at sticking to things I actually know something about...or at leas admit to the level of knowledge I have. Some areas I have almost a journalistic (Old School factual journalism, not yelling polemics until I drown out everyone else modern journalism) knowledge of a subject. I could ask fairly intelligent questions. Other areas, I dabble in, and I know just enough to show how stupid I am. Other areas, I flat out know nothing about.
So I fully understand what this paper was referring to. Just because I can look up the math that shows Einstein's Field Equations. There are Ten of them, but they all start from one core equation. Could I derive any of them? Or use them to find the Event Horizon in a particular Black Hole. No flipping way.
But I think I understand Einstein and Relativity. Who am I fooling? Nobody. Just the AI thinks I am smart. LOL