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AI is like a hammer (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 months ago by ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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Any tool can be a hammer if you use it wrong enough.

A good hammer is designed to be a hammer and only used like a hammer.

If you have a fancy new hammer, everything looks like a nail.

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[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Or called our mobile phones "cell phones", despite not being organic. Tsk.

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 1 points 3 months ago

Except cell phones or cellular phones refer to the structure a mobile network is built on: a mesh of cell towers.

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