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Eroding a virtue: AI trains people to expect instant answers, and that's bad news for patience

When I was growing up, teachers would assign research papers that required going to the library, or later, searching for relevant material on the internet. If the paper was going to turn out well, we students needed to patiently comb through piles of material, weaving what we found into a coherent a...

Eroding a virtue: AI trains people to expect instant answers, and that's bad news for patience
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When I was growing up, teachers would assign research papers that required going to the library, or later, searching for relevant material on the internet. If the paper was going to turn out well, we students needed to patiently comb through piles of material, weaving what we found into a coherent argument that was well-supported with evidence.

Originally published at Phys.org

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