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“everyone is now talking about AI making us a little bit stupid.”

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everyone is now talking about AI making us a little bit stupid. Okay? And I know there was, like, when in nineties when Google just launched, there was a a lot of, like, talking about how Google is making us stupid. And, I was chatting to someone on LinkedIn and, actually, that lady said that she even had a sticker in her car saying, is Google making you stupid? Right? So there was that already happened in the past. But now these days, there's a lot of actually study done, around how AI is impacting our brain. So there's one study by MIT

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The speaker draws parallels between current concerns about AI making people stupid and similar debates that occurred when Google launched in the 1990s. They mention that MIT has conducted studies on how AI impacts our brains, suggesting this is a recurring pattern with new technologies.

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This clip provides valuable historical context that reframes current AI concerns by showing this is a recurring pattern with transformative technologies.

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