As AI tools and instant search become more embedded in our daily workflows, it’s getting easier to outsource our thinking instead of working through problems ourselves. In this edition of the Web News, Matt and Mike discuss whether AI is making us lazier thinkers, how constant access to answers is changing problem-solving habits, and why struggling with a problem might still be an important skill to protect.
The internet + search engines gave us the ability to search for answers from the home PC. Smartphones expanded that to allow us to search while on the go. And now AI is here to help us work and think through questions, queries, and problems - no matter where we are.
Slowly but surely we've been outsourcing our thinking to technology. Why think through a problem when the best answer is somewhere out there in cyberspace?
Inspiration article: https://www.jernesto.com/articles/thinking_hard
