​When Smartphones Get Smarter, Do We Get Dumber? – Tyler Durden

When Smartphones Get Smarter, Do We Get Dumber? Authored by Makai Allbert via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), As Mohamed  Elmasry, emeritus professor of computer engineering at the University of Waterloo, watched his 11 and 10-year-old grandchildren tapping away on their smartphones, he posed a simple question: “What’s one-third of nine?” Instead of taking a moment to think, they immediately opened their calculator apps, he writes in his book “iMind Artificial and Real Intelligence.” Illustration by The Epoch Times, Freepik, Getty Images Later, fresh from a family vacation in Cuba, he asked them to name the island’s capital. Once again,…  — Continue at ZeroHedge News : Read More