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AI's Big Gift to Society Is … Pithy Summaries?
Companies keep rolling out AI features that boil down various kinds of text. They're making us dumber.
He has learned that something that seems trivial can unlock a whole new understanding of an event, provide a path to an unknown source, or unravel a mystery of who was responsible for a crisis or an accomplishment. With Microsoft Copilot, if you so much as hover your cursor over an Excel spreadsheet, PDF, Word doc, or PowerPoint presentation, you’ll get it boiled down. Still, I suspect that kids with a consuming hunger to learn about the way the world works don’t have trouble getting their grubby little hands on rocketry tools, telescopes, and even interesting chemicals.
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