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The best metaphor for AI is an amplifier: it can make you lazier with less effort, or amplify the best of you.
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- Hadley Wickham Statistician and Chief Scientist at Posit (RStudio)
At the end of the day, I think the best metaphor for AI is that it’s an amplifier.
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