When Smartphones Get Smarter, Do We Get Dumber?

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When Smartphones Get Smarter, Do We Get Dumber?
Illustration by The Epoch Times, Freepik, Getty Images
Illustration by The Epoch Times, Freepik, Getty Images
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As Mohamed Elmasry, emeritus professor of computer engineering at the University of Waterloo, watched his 11- and 10-year-old grandchildren tapping away on their smartphones, he posed a simple question: “What’s one-third of nine?”

Instead of taking a moment to think, they immediately opened their calculator apps, he wrote in his book “iMind Artificial and Real Intelligence.”
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