Overreliance on A.I. Erodes ‘the Quality of Human Thought,” Microsoft Study Finds

Overreliance on A.I. Erodes ‘the Quality of Human Thought,” Microsoft Study Finds

A new survey correlated higher confidence in A.I. tools to less critical thinking. Photo by Milad Fakurian on Unsplash Humans have always been wary of how technological advances could deteriorate our thinking skills. The printing press, for example, led some to worry that scribes would become lazy; calculators spooked math teachers; and the internet spawned…

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Google, SoftBank Pour $230M into Quantum Computer Startup QuEra

Google, SoftBank Pour 0M into Quantum Computer Startup QuEra

QuEra was founded in 2018 by top physicists from Harvard and MIT. QuEra QuEra Computing, a Boston-based quantum computing company, has raised $230 million in a round led by Google (GOOGL) and SoftBank (SFTBF)’s Vision Fund 2 to develop “fault-tolerant” quantum computers, designed to overcome the computational errors that have long hindered real-world quantum applications.…

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