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Alison Gopnik on Child Development, Elderhood, Caregiving, and A.I.

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AI as a Cultural Technology: Enabling Unprecedented Information Flow Between Generations

Chat GPT should be viewed as a cultural technology rather than an intelligent agent, enabling the transmission of information across generations. Cultural revolution, facilitated by children, is considered a distinctive form of intelligence as it allows each generation to inherit and utilize information from previous generations without having to rediscover it. The evolution of language and writing has facilitated the more effective transmission of information across time and space. These cultural technologies have had deep transformative effects on society, such as the printing technology in the 18th century that influenced the American and French Revolutions through the spread of democracy and enlightenment ideas, albeit with different outcomes.

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