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Could generative AI be just a minor revolution?

On a recent episode of the TBPN podcast, Jordi Hays asked his cohost John Coogan whether his life would really be that much worse if he couldn’t access generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude. Would AI’s absence be as disruptive, he asks, as the sudden disappearance of smartphones, or TVs, or electricity? Coogan conceded it wouldn’t. The real-life impact of AI varies—someone going through a hard time might find relief in the counsel of a chatbot—but it’s reasonable to judge the technology in societal and historical terms, because that’s how its biggest

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