@rohanpaul_ai: Terence Tao: "We lived in a world with cognitive friction until very recently, where every task required us to use our …
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Terence Tao discusses how AI reduces cognitive friction, allowing researchers to pursue more creative and unconventional ideas.
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Terence Tao: “We lived in a world with cognitive friction until very recently, where every task required us to use our brain.
So we didn’t really think about it, we just thought this was the cost of doing something intellectual. But now we have AI and the other technologies https://t.co/3BbUCEDMyk
OpenAI (@OpenAI): AI can give researchers the freedom to pursue “crazier” ideas.
For Terence Tao, AI creates more room to experiment, test unexpected paths, and discover what might otherwise stay out of reach.
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