Brian Laird on WNYC, and we're going to end our week with a few phone calls and a guest

on how AI and maybe other technological advancements are making you stupid.

Do you ever get a sense that tech is affecting you in that way?

And do you do anything to combat it to kind of take your brain back?

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And we asked this because there was an article in the Wall Street Journal titled How I Realized AI was Making Me Stupid and What I Do Now by Sam Shackner, a tech reporter there.

Who joins us now? Hi, Sam. Welcome to WNYC. Thank you for coming on about this.

Thanks so much for having me,

Brian. So tell us your story. What were you using AI for and what made you conclude it was making you stupid? Well, you know, I, you can hear from my voice. I'm American. I'm from New York,

but I live overseas. I live in Paris. I'm a correspondent

here for the journal. And, you know, even after all these years, I speak French fluently, but it's,

you know, it's a, it's a pain sometimes. And so I started using AI to help me a little bit when I

had some French writing to do, things I could do myself,

but kind of preferred not to. And I remember the first real thing I tried was I was having a

problem with the rec center where my son plays basketball, that the coach kept missing games.

And so I thought, hmm, can chat GPT do this for me?

And so I just kind of explained the problem in some detail in English into chat GPT and asked for it to write me an email.

And the email was like, pretty good.

I changed a few words, sent it off.

And like the next day, the rec center sent me this long, apologetic email and, and, you know, they got a new coach.

And I was like, wow, this works.

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