Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
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Mastodon thread summarising the study, by one of the involved scientists:
Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
(www.brainonllm.com)
"ChatGPT, summarize this study for me"
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Are you referring to the AI search results? If so, I've fallen into a similar strategy. I'll search for something, usuaply how to do something then read the AI result. If it's what I'm looking for, then I'll click through to the referenced articles. The AI result is usually too vague. Part of my problem is probably bad searching skills on my part. I'll often find what I'm looking for way down the first page or sometimes the second page of results. The AI cuts through that searching page after page or tells me that I need to change my search terms.
The real problem is that the first 10 links after the AI slop are all ads. At least the slop (for now) is less ad-centric. I am 100% sure that will change soon.
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"EEG" on "AI"? I heard you like pseudo-science, so I put extra pseudo-science in your pseudo-science, dawg!!!
What's wrong with EEG?
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Are you referring to the AI search results? If so, I've fallen into a similar strategy. I'll search for something, usuaply how to do something then read the AI result. If it's what I'm looking for, then I'll click through to the referenced articles. The AI result is usually too vague. Part of my problem is probably bad searching skills on my part. I'll often find what I'm looking for way down the first page or sometimes the second page of results. The AI cuts through that searching page after page or tells me that I need to change my search terms.
With Gemini I have had several instances of the referenced article saying nothing like what the llm summarized. Ie: The LLM tried to answer my question and threw up a website on the general topic with no bearing on the actual question
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Mastodon thread summarising the study, by one of the involved scientists:
Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
(www.brainonllm.com)
So basically LLM is new eugenics, we turn people back into animals.
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Same reason I don't use GPS. I want to actually learn, use my brain and grow as a human.
No one grows when the work is done for them.
I use them to find a new route. I'll try and drive back on memory. After that I should be able to find it on my own
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"ChatGPT, summarize this study for me"
You suck at learning.
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"EEG" on "AI"? I heard you like pseudo-science, so I put extra pseudo-science in your pseudo-science, dawg!!!
- ☐ you misunderstand EEG
- ☐ you confuse EEG with something else
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Mastodon thread summarising the study, by one of the involved scientists:
Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
(www.brainonllm.com)
As an anecdote I can attest to this personally. I stopped using AI assistance tools for my work bc I noticed I'd stopped thinking about what I was doing
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Same reason I don't use GPS. I want to actually learn, use my brain and grow as a human.
No one grows when the work is done for them.
Your brain doesn't have real time traffic information.
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"ChatGPT, summarize this study for me"
Chatgpt is so hopelessly and blindly pro science it will be incapable to address its shortcomings unless you actively rub its nose in it. And that would mean you know how the sausage is made well enough that you don't need a summary.
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You would think the world right now is led by bright, clever, thoughtful individuals considering the AI panic lol
We have the meanest dumfucks instead, we're tired of playing on easy mode.
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- ☐ you misunderstand EEG
- ☐ you confuse EEG with something else
It's low energy brain porn, nmr brain imaging, gray matter v white matter, all the same flavour of reading tea leaves.