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I hate that people think this.

AI is a superfast internet search.

Imagine if you had that growing up. Instant access to any information with a professorial level of teaching and you could ask any question to clear up any confusion?

Our kids are going to be smarter than we could even imagine because getting access to any information they can imagine is instant taught by a perfect tutor.



It's not search.

When I (re)search a certain topic, I curate a list of books, I read the table of contents, I skim the pages, I compare the texts.

When I ask the AI about something, I get an answer.


There's still a place for books and learning a subject deeply imo

AI is amazing in that it can both teach you, give you examples, help you work on projects, etc etc c


I kind of both agree and disagree with this point.

Ive gotten into 3+ new engineering projects all because of AI. My entire life I only dreamed of the inventions I didnt have technical knowledge or time to complete. I would have never been able to do that 3-4 years ago.

I need an AI to dumb it down for me. It makes intimidating learning curves, do-able. Call me stupid, or smart, it doesnt really matter.

AI is not a substitute for books.. but it is a clear gift for humanity. Especially the lazy humans (Me.)


This is exactly how I feel.

It's giving me exactly what I've always wanted: the ability to acquire information as rapidly as I can think.

No more searching through stack overflow for an hour to find some esoteric semantics. The frustrating internet searches are few and far between now.


There's value in the struggle, learning what questions to ask, handling the questions following a question, articulating what it is that you want to know, learning how to have an exchange of information with another human being, and being civil about it. If you honestly think that replacing this growth with a paywalled, corporate chatbot that has been known to convince people to kill themselves will be a boon for society, I'm not sure what to tell you.


> handling the questions following a question, articulating what it is that you want to know

AI is amazing at exactly this.

It can answer any question, go into any level of detail, go as fast or slow as you want, or complicated or simple as you want, and present it to you how you best learn things.

Truly amazing for reducing the barriers to learning.

> how to have an exchange with other human beings and be civil about it

Seems like that's your parents job to teach you that. lol




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