#cognitive debt

[spiderhungry]

It's going to be hard, in the future, to figure out how much of dementia is caused by COVID-19 and how much is caused by the use of ChatGPT.

[flakeblood]

This tumblr thread on an AI study is unable to be reblogged at this time, so I copied the information here.

Thread by @itsalexvacca on Thread Reader App

@itsalexvacca: BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are terrifying. Turns out, AI isn't ma

The original paper:

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task

This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM,

I'm also including a visual in case some people don't know how to access the paper once they get to the webpage:

Just use an option outlined here in the top-right corner.

[teledyn]

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task

This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM,

surprise surprise

[adammonago]

The Integration Advantage isn't stored value. It circulates or it calcifies. And you can't tell which one is happening, because calcification feels exactly like wisdom. New essay on what the Newseum taught me about senior professionals waiting for the dust to settle. #CareerArchitecture #Knowledge

Use It Or Lose It

[ideadeco]

When Did We Stop Trusting Our Own Ideas?

Can you feel that? That is the sound of identical digital noise filling the air from every direction. We are watching a smooth evacuation of original thought in real time. We admire the machine’s fluency while ignoring the cognitive emptiness behind so much of what it produces. Somewhere along the way, we traded the rough edges of thinking for the polished statistical average of a prompt. As…

When Did We Stop Trusting Our Own Ideas?