Are Our Smartphones Turning Us Into Idiots?

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We're quite literally offloading parts of our brains onto these devices. We feel that when we misplace them, which some of us do more frequently than others. But it's just going to catch on even more in the future. I'd like to think that it could buy encoding so much automatically in our devices - giving us access to so much more information and so much more directly. That leaves more room for us to do the creative part,. The conscious part is still at the center of all this.

Last year, Rufus sat down with philosopher David Chalmers to talk about the allure of virtual reality, whether robots will ever achieve consciousness, and the likelihood that we’re living in a simulation (David thinks it’s about 25 percent). It was a fascinating, freewheeling conversation, and we left large chunks of it on the cutting room floor. Now, though, with ChatGPT and other generative AI platforms taking the world by storm, those unaired sections, many of which were about the ethics of artificial intelligence, feel super relevant. So today, we’re sharing our complete interview with David. Buckle up. It’s a wild ride.