Progressive dementia, perhaps. If you get human beings who are ideologically programmed to go on suicide missions and believe they're reaping an eternity in heaven it blows the most enormous hole in such transparently self-serving, as cartoonishly idiotic as insane logic.
We're not going to be using tokens forever, and inevitably specialized hardware will solve this bottleneck. Underestimating how much proprietary advancements are loaded into Google TPUs is sort of like thinking the best we've got are Acura TSXs when somebody's driving around in a Ferrari.
> Using ChatGPT on cognitive tasks can reduce your brain connectivity by up to 50% and reduce your ability to recall information about the task by 8x.
I hate this thing. I don't think it added anything to this article to conflate this "study" - did no one stop to think your brain isn't firing on all cylinders when the AI is doing the work because that's what the whole point of AI is?
It's supposed to free up your mind to attend to other matters.
We're not building muscles like we used to when we use tractors and heavy machinery instead of building houses brick by brick by hand either. So what?? Attend a gym and read something technical and dense.
In a for-profit system, literally everybody is a mercenary. Thoughts, prayers, and vibes don't put food on my table or pay my bills and compute expenses.