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Perhaps more concerning, it may contribute to the deterioration of cognitive faculties.

AI wont make everyone smarter.

Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit in San Francisco, California, US, on Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023.

OpenAIs Will Depue says it might make some people dumber.The top percentile becomes extremely overpoweredbut many will fall behind.

ChatGPT isnt a universal boost.

Its an amplifier of extremes.

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According to Depue :

“I think the world just gets a lot more extreme.

And I think the top percentile students are just gonna get extremely overpowered.”

Like even now, today, I just talk to ChatGPT everyday.

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I was like asking it random concepts like learning random things."

“I think it’s an incredible tool for learning but I think it’s kind of bimodal.

Do other people share this opinion as well?

Andrej Karpathy, Director of AI Tesla, a keynote speaker at the Train AI conference in 2018

“a Reddit user indicated.

Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI.

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Claude AI app by Anthropic is seen displayed on a smartphone screen.

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