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AI Will Make Us Ultra Dumb If We Won’t Do These Six Things
Replacing TV with TikTok, and our brains with AI will make coffee cups filled with even more warnings. But we can preserve our cognitive functions in the AI era with these six simple tricks
In science fiction our future usually is portrait as as a super intelligent race, peaceful and wise.
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The delightful perspective however contradicts the reality we face as a civilization. No doubt we are getting dumber and dumber each year as an Earth collective.
It’s proved by data that show that every generation is overall less intelligent than previous one.
When I read data about it, it always feels like a temporary trend, but is it?
We could blame television. Television was in fact considered one of the major contributors. The technology was to end this madness.
With Wikipedia, full access to knowledge the trend should reverse. But did we really switch to this? Or to TikTok, even dumber medium than TV?
Or maybe it’s that we just don’t need to be so intelligent anymore. We have systems…
