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Bill Gates Is Betting on AI to Help Healthcare – While Warning About What AI Could Do to Jobs

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Imagine a clinic with ten doctors and far more patients than those ten doctors can reasonably handle.

Now imagine giving those doctors AI.

The doctors can get through paperwork faster. They can organize information more quickly. They can spend less time on routine tasks and more time with patients.

Maybe they can see twice as many people.

That sounds like a win.

And it could be.

Bill Gates is thinking about exactly this kind of future. He sees enormous potential

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Could Overusing ChatGPT Harm Your Critical Thinking? A Recent Study Warns

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You know how many of us use smartphones to navigate to a destination instead of figuring out the way ourselves? It’s super convenient - but then you hear stories about people blindly following GPS directions and ending up in rivers or stuck in strange places because they stopped paying attention or thinking for themselves.

So it’s really no surprise that the findings of a recent MIT Media Lab study show that relying too heavily on AI tools like ChatGPT can

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