Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task – MIT Media Lab
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This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and …

Note: this lemmy post was originally titled MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline and linked to this article, which I cross-posted from this post in !fuck_ai@lemmy.world.

Someone pointed out that the “Science, Public Health Policy and the Law” website which published this click-bait summary of the MIT study is not a reputable publication deserving of traffic, so, 16 hours after posting it I am editing this post (as well as the two other cross-posts I made of it) to link to MIT’s page about the study instead.

The actual paper is here and was previously posted on !fuck_ai@lemmy.world and other lemmy communities here.

Note that the study with its original title got far less upvotes than the click-bait summary did 🤡

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    arithmetic is a very small and almost inconsequential skill to develop within the framework of mathematics.

    I’d consider it foundational. And hardly small or inconsequential given the time young people spend mastering it.

    Any human that doesn’t have severe learning disabilities will be able to develop a sufficient baseline of arithmetic skills.

    With time and training, sure. But simply handing out calculators and cutting math teaching budgets undoes that.

    This is the real nut of comparison. Telling kids “you don’t need to know math if you have a calculator” is intended to reduce the need for public education.

    I’d be a lot less bothered if LLMs were made to provide guidance to students, a la the Socratic method: posing leading questions to the students and helping them to think along the right tracks.

    But the economic vision for these tools is to replace workers, not to enhance them. So the developers don’t want to do that. They want tools that facilitate redundancy and downsizing.

    But that doesn’t leave users with a sense of immediate gratification

    It leads them to dig their own graves, certainly.