On first examination this sounds great, who wouldn't want better math skills right? But then I think of all those poor kids in countries that are hyper competitive for schools and exams, like China and South Korea. Now they might have the added nightmare of being hooked up to cranial stimulators, on top of all the other stress they have to put up with.
Also if AI is getting so good, what is the point of going to so much effort to improve your math? Surely, the only skill you need is to know how to get AI to produce the results for you?
Zapping Volunteers' Brains With Electricity Boosted Their Maths Skills
Researchers in England say a non-invasive electrical scalp stimulation technique improved math ability by over 25%.
byu/lughnasadh inFuturology
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Well if they simply did better at maths then they wouldn’t need to. Lovey bit of extra insensitive
>Also if AI is getting so good, what is the point of going to so much effort to improve your math? Surely, the only skill you need is to know how to get AI to produce the results for you?
Bruh
I remember that DARPA was testing something similar almost 15 years ago for accelerated language learning.