Google Trends Is Misleading You
Google Trends. What a gift to society this is. If not for google trends, how would we have ever known that more Disney movies released in the 2000s led to fewer divorces in the UK. Or that drinking Coca Cola is an unknown remedy to cat scratches.
Wait, am I getting confused by correlation vs causation again?
What even is AI?
Everywhere you look, something is labeled AI. I see it every day in stores, on apps, in ads. But here’s the problem: a lot of it isn’t really AI at all. And that raises the real question: do we even know what AI actually is, or how much of it we really want in our lives? UK research shows public trust in actual AI is declining: concerns are rising, like using AI to assess welfare eligibility, where worry jumped from 44% to 59% in just two years.
My hardest Pokemon battle was with the data
The Pokémon Trading Card Game (TCG) first launched in Japan on October 20, 1996, with its original set of 102 cards. It’s wild to realize Pokémon is actually as old as I am. I still remember being a kid and seeing those first cards and decks hit the shelves—the rush of opening a new pack, the thrill of pulling a secret rare, and that urge to collect them all. If only my mom had known what those cards would be worth today, she probably would’ve thought twice before threatening to toss them out! So now, it’s time to answer the question: was it ever really worth opening those packs, or should we have just kept them sealed all these years?
Does ChatGPT make you stupider?
Imagine a future where machines do everything for us. Where humans just…atrophy. Where we become so reliant on automation we literally can’t walk anymore. Where we can clap our hands and a robot will appear to solve our every whim, whether that’s something to drink or shade from the sun. Wait… Isn’t that just WALL-E?
Alright so it’s fair to say that the fact we haven’t invented hover-chairs yet means we’re a little way off Disney’s prediction but the future could, in some ways, be much closer than you think. It’s not curious and heart warming little robots like WALL-E and it’s not Terminators either. It’s something far more subtle, something that many of us interact with every single day. It’s AI. Specifically, ChatGPT.
And it’s not just tasks we’re outsourcing either. We might be outsourcing our intelligence.
Is this the dawn of a new era of human ingenuity or are we on the fast track to intellectual laziness? The latest research is sounding some serious alarms.
