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Comment on Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task – MIT Media Lab

frazw@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

I mean this feels like an obvious result. Are we thinking this is ground breaking?

Like comparing 3 ways of making a table, hand tools, power tools or paying someone to make it for you. Then asking which required the most effort.

I mean I know it’s important to confirm even expected results but this feels so intuitive.

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Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
Well it’s rather than being about effort, it’s more like, in the end, which of these people best understands how to make a table?

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sheridan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
It seems intuitive but also 2000 years ago people thought that for example the eye emitting some sort of substance that interacts with the surrounding environment to be an intuitive explanation for how vision works, so intuitions need to be tested.

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- BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Damnit. Eye lasers would have been so much cooler though.
  
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  - Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Well we do have some kind of eye lasers it’s just very low energy
    
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eatCasserole@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
No it’s more complex than that. In the final session, participants were swapped between the LLM and Brain groups, and the effects persisted to some extent.

So it’s worse than “using an LLM doesn’t engage your brain”, it’s more like “using an LLM actually makes you dumber.”

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demonsword@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

I mean this feels like an obvious result.

I’m glad scientists think otherwise, or we would still be living in the dark ages.

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- JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch ⁨53⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
  In other news, dark ages are a myth disproven by science.
  
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Deestan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
It is obvious, but we have so many liars lying to eveeyone and each other about AI that they get away with it. Skilled bullshitters shitting up clouds of smoke and using every manipulation tactic in the world.

Some hard evidence makes it easier to prevent their damage.

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paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
It’s so easy to pontificate instead of actually doing studies, right?

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- afk_strats@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  That’s a great observation!..
  
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- TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Fuck yeah. Lets do it!
  
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