Their primary motivation for pushing the app, more often than not, seems to boil down to gaining more access to your personal data and behavior.
The perceived “convenience” of an app often comes at the cost of your privacy and control.
So, the next time you're met with that insistent prompt to download an app, take a moment to consider what you might be giving up. For me, I'm sticking to the website.
Humans don’t really learn when we download info into our brain, we learn when we expend effort to pull that info out.
The “thing” that we learn most effectively is not knowledge as we typically think of it, it’s process.
Humans learn collectively and innovate collectively via copying, mimicry, and iteration on top of prior art.
We build tools to help us think, not to think for us.
I like to imagine AI as an “absent-minded instructor”, not as a coworker. It’s prone to forgetting details, but ultimately there to guide you; most importantly, the goal of the instructor is to make sure you learn and learn how to learn!
Please, y’all, put the emphasis on humanity back into our tooling rather than pretending nothing matters, as if somehow humans will supposedly be irrelevant in a few years.