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My nephew asked his smart speaker to write his book report on 'Charlotte's Web' last night.

It made me think about how we used to just get a stack of notecards from the library for that stuff. Anyone else feel like the line between using a tool and outsourcing the thinking is getting really blurry lately?
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the_betty
the_betty24d ago
My cousin tried that and the summary called Wilbur a spider.
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lindab49
lindab4917d ago
Yeah, those auto summaries can get things totally wrong. It makes you wonder, like Simon717 said, how you're supposed to learn from a tool that mixes up basic facts. If it called a character a spider, what else did it get wrong in the chapter? I'd be double checking everything after that.
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simon717
simon71724d ago
How do you even learn anything that way?
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