At least not having to care about arithmetic leaves more time to care about mathematics.
We don't do calculations: computers do it for us.
We don't accumulate knowledge: we trust Google to give us the information when needed.
Everything in a small package everyone can wear all day long. We're at the second step of transhumanism.
GPS is great at knowing where you are, but directions are much much harder, and the extra difficulty is why the first version of Apple Maps was widely ridiculed.
Even now, I find it's a mistake to just assume Google Maps can direct me around Berlin public transport better than my own local knowledge — sometimes it can, sometimes it can't.
(But yes, a single original Pi Zero beats all humans combined at arithmetic even if all of us were at the level of the world record holder).
After I moved here and learned the system, I realised it had on my first trip directed me through a series of unnecessary train routes for a 5 minute walk.
Last summer, when trying to find a specific named cafe a friend was at, Google Maps tried to have me walk 5 minutes to the train station behind me to catch the train to the stop in front of me to walk back to… the other side of the street because I hadn't recognised the sign.
It's a great tool, fantastic even, but it still doesn't beat local knowledge. And very occasionally, invisibly unless you hit the edge, the map isn't correctly joined at the nodes and you can spot the mistake even as a first time visitor.
I got AI answer saying ‘no’, but actually you do.
If I use a calculator it will be correct. If I open encyclopaedia it will mostly be correct, because someone with a brain did at least 5 minutes of thining.
We are not talking about some minor detail, AI makes colossal errors with great confidence and conviction.
To be honest, we do for most things: I have not checked the speed of light. And I surely would not be able to implement a way to measure it from only my observations and experience.
I mean I'm skeptical about AI as well and don't like it, but I can see it becoming a force multiplier itself.
Posters here love to bring out this argument, but I think a major weakness is that those people wound up being right. People don't memorize things any more! I don't think it's fair to hold out as an example of fears which didn't come to pass, as they very much did come to pass.
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and it made no difference.