Mina Kimes
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And I think that is something that
people are figuring out when they use these technologies is, yeah, if you want to just do a crappy job, it could do it.
But most of us should want more than that, I think.
And that's been my experience in playing around with these tools.
Pablo, can I jump in there?
Because I just love this point that Mina made.
And I think it's like one of the most important points that someone can make about this technology, which is this capacity for overuse of AI to lead to a kind of cognitive atrophy.
The most memorable thing that I heard here was,
is, I think it was a Substack essay, where someone was pointing out the distinction between a job and a gym.
And they said, with a job, the point is to get the work done.
But at a gym, the point is to lift the weight.
You can't go to the gym and ask somebody else to bench 135 and tell yourself that you sort of bench 135 because you asked somebody else to do it.
No, your muscles will atrophy day after day, week after week, if you turn going to the gym to going to the gym to ask somebody else to lift the weights.
I think lots of people use AI to help them do their job, to just get the job done faster.
But Mina's totally right.
There's no question that especially we can already see this at the high school and college level.
People are using this to lift the weight.
They're using it to write the essays.
They're using it to do the research.
Journalists, I'm sure, are using it to write their outlines.