When calculators came out in the 70s my college math instructor told us that it’s game over. He said that while college math degrees will still be offered in the future, hand held calculators would now do 99% of all math calculations. 30 years later search engines and Google in particular started thinking for us. And now AI is here. This time, it’s really game over. Critical thinking will disappear in one generation.
I was thinking that same thing. How long will it be before using AI on a test in a college course will be accepted?
Your college math instructor really said that?!
The trick is in knowing which mathematical formulae to use, and then drawing the proper inferences.
30 years later search engines and Google in particular started thinking for us.
They don't "think" for us.
To be sure: Search engines have made those old newspaper article reference checking services passé - but today, a single individual (say, a college student writing a term paper, or any mentally agile and skeptical person who likes to cross-check and verify media reports) might launch more searches on a daily basis than an entire corps of little old ladies viewing microfiche files could possibly grapple with.
And now AI is here.
Yes, at this point, we do indeed see the true intellectual performance of the human mind being replaced.
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