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date: "2024-03-04T12:07:15Z"
categories:
  - linkedin
description: "A brief Calvin-and-Hobbes response reframes the fear that ChatGPT will make humanity dumber as one more instance of offloading drudgery to machines."
keywords: ["ChatGPT", "human intelligence", "automation", "Calvin and Hobbes", "education", "technology anxiety"]
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A friend told me today that using #ChatGPT will make humanity dumber.

"Probably. Like always, #Calvin has the best response I know to that. "I propose we leave math to the machines and go play outside." 🙂

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