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Will AI Make Us All Dumb ?
Grasping the already immense power of Artificial Intelligence
For some time now, I have been sing several large language models for work , and for personal interests. Access to popular LLMs comes from either commercial product implementations such as the Microsoft Copilot family of tools, or from community accessible tools like ChatGPT, Grok , or Google’s Gemini or its fantastic research assistant , NoteBookLM . These tools have increased my productivity, my work velocity and changed the way I organize knowledge for later recall.
Yesterday, this became ever so much more apparent as I sat on a bench in the park, taking in the sounds of an awakening Spring. I was engrossed in exploring a small compendium of Catholic prayers in Latin which you too can explore at the Preces Latinae website.
As I was perusing a collection of prayers, I came across the words “orare deum” . I did not expect that specific grammatical construction for I thought that “orare” would strictly be an intransitive verb, and not one that would take a direct object, expressed through a Latin accusative such as “deum”. So I decided to turn to my AI helpers for their opinion. This time, I opted to use Grok, which I recently have been testing. I asked myself, and then the Generative AI chatbot the following question, correction “prompt” : “is…
