The End of Arithmetic for Humans

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GPT4 is at least a million times smarter than us in arithmetic. We've lived through this several times already, we think it's new but do you remember when calculators came along? Yeah, right. So these things already, you mentioned this kind of what I call dumb smart. They're dumb smart. This is going to be a yes. Our phrase there, how can you be so smart here and so dumb over there? Yeah. It's stupid in certain areas and yeah, extremely smart and others. But when you get a sampling of some of the areas in which it is dramatically smarter than we are, you get a taste of perhaps what other species have felt in the

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