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Re:Show HN: Learn Any Language with an AI Tutor at Your Own ... by Mkengine on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @10:41AM (#39828514)

Sometimes I ask myself if WALLE is not that unrealistic of an dystopy, as we can already see that people are worse at remembering numbers in contrast to the time before smartphones, that save this information for you. Right now you can let ChatGPT do your homework without knowing anything about the subject. Where does this stop? Are we steering for a future where machines are doing everything for us and we will become dumber and dumber?

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Re:Show HN: Learn Any Language with an AI Tutor at Your Own ... by kaon_ on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @10:52AM (#39828673)

From the perspective of a hunter gatherer, we already live in this future. Our skills have nothing to do with theirs. From their perspective we are phenomenally dumb because we couldn't survive very long in the wild, and know very little of our natural surroundings.

In fact you can argue natural pressures have stopped us from evolving. We don't need our logical skills anymore to deduce the tracking and pathing of animals we hunt, or our memory to remember where the berries are.

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Re:Show HN: Learn Any Language with an AI Tutor at Your Own ... by jimbokun on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @11:40AM (#39829254)

We're not worse at remembering numbers, there's just no need for it so we don't bother.

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Re:Show HN: Learn Any Language with an AI Tutor at Your Own ... by idontknowifican on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @11:24AM (#39829085)

i think what people memorize has been made optional, but that people still memorize a lot. sure not phone mumbers, but the amount of lore they can recite from some fandom seems to be of similar depth

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