MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline
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MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline
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Re: MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline
#2Isn't this a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44286277 ?
Re: MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline
#3I think this is based on this paper:
https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt...
Re: MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline
#4Isn't this a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44286277 ?
There are dozens of duplicates for pro-AI dreck, so this post should stand.
Re: MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline
#5Isn't this a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44286277 ?
Was going to comment the same but you beat me to it!
On that note, reading the ChatGPT-esque summary in the linked article gave me more brain damage than any AI I've used so far
Re: MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline
#6I remember this paper when it came out a couple months ago. Makes a lot of sense, the use of tools like ChatGPT essentially offshore the thinking processes in your brain. I really like the analogy to time under tension they talk about in https://www.theringer.com/podcasts/plain-english-with-derek-... (they also discuss this study and some of the flaws/results with it)
Re: MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline
#7That explains a lot of Hacker News lately. /s
Like everything else in our life, cognition is "use it or lose it". Oursourcing your decision making and critical thinking to a fancy autocomplete with sycopantic tendencies and incapable of reasoning sure is fun, but as the study found, it has its downsides.
Re: MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline
#8Anybody who has tried to shortcut themselves into a report on something using an LLM, and was then asked to defend the plans contained within it knows that writing is thinking. And if you outsource the writing, you do less thinking and with less thinking there is less understanding. Your mental model is less complete, less comprehensive.
I wouldn't call it "cognitive decline", more "a less deep understanding of the subject".
Try solving bugs from your vibe coded projects... It's pain, you haven't learned anything while you build something. And as a result you don't fully grasp how your creation works.
LLM are tools, but also shortcuts, and humans learn by doing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is pretty obvious to me after using LLMs for various tasks over the past years.
Re: MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline
#9"@gork Is this true?"
Re: MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline
#10> In post-task interviews:
> 83.3% of LLM users were unable to quote even one sentence from the essay they had just written.
> In contrast, 88.9% of Search and Brain-only users could quote accurately.
> 0% of LLM users could produce a correct quote, while most Brain-only and Search users could.
Reminds me of my coworkers who have literally no idea what Chat GPT put into their PR from last week.