Episode 145 – The Dunning-Kruger Effect – Unskilled, and unaware of it

What if you're too incompetent to realise your incompetence? We explore this in today's story.

We now live in a world where crafting a question takes much longer than getting an answer.

You type a prompt and get a polished answer. If it all ended there then all would be good. But it doesn't. You often walk away feeling like you have learnt something, you are now more knowledgable.

But have you really? Or are we borrowing someone else's fluency and calling it your own.

I often ask myself, when using Al to generate an answer, whether I am falling into the Dunning-Kruger trap.

In today's story | talk about the Dunning-Kruger effect - a cognitive bias where people who are very bad at something are often too bad at it to realise they are bad at it.

To know that you're making mistakes, you need enough knowledge to recognise what a mistake looks like.

The everyday version of this is that friend who took one economics class and now has strong opinions about monetary policy, while your friend with an actual holds a PhD in economics says "it's complicated" to everything.

The issue isn't Al itself, it's how we engage with it. Learning to recognise the distance between feeling knowledgeable and actually being knowledgeable, maybe one of the most valuable skills we can develop, especially in this age of Al.

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