Four Years with AI: Are We getting Smarter or Dumber?
Matt joins Paul for a follow-up conversation on a question that has become even more urgent four years into the generative-AI era: is AI making us smarter or dumber?
They revisit concerns around cognitive offloading, lost skills, and the ease with which increasingly capable systems can do the thinking that once helped us learn. But Paul also makes the case that the story is more nuanced—and more hopeful—than it first appears. AI can take curious people down valuable learning rabbit holes, helping them explore topics and build knowledge they may never have encountered otherwise.
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