Irecently witnessed a teen girl struggling to do simple math. I know my 7-year-old nephew could have done that calculation, as I have seen his homework.

It occurred to me that as Apple iPhone was released in 2007, the girl's parents may have given her a smartphone when she was in elementary school, and she always used a calculator app.

And the brain has one thing in common with a muscle: if you don't use it, it atrophies or weakens.

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In 2017, five years before chatGPT was released and artificial intelligence applications became widespread, University of Chicago Press released a paper: "Brain drain: the mere presence of one's own smartphone reduces available cognitive capacity."

That is scary. Google also recentl

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