Submitted 1 month ago by da_peda@lemmings.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/
EEG revealed significant differences in brain connectivity: Brain-only participants exhibited the strongest, most distributed networks; Search Engine users showed moderate engagement; and LLM users displayed the weakest connectivity. Cognitive activity scaled down in relation to external tool use.
Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.
I bet my connectivity would be off the charts with activity because anytime I see results from it, I get enraged and wonder how something can be so stupid
I only prompt questions for things I already know… more of a confirmation thingand more often then not, it’s wrong
This study is almost 6 months old. Why post it now?
Because I found it now and searching didn’t show anyone posting it before…
I mean, I did say this in a different thread, lol
:)
Kind of hilarious that the comments in this post are doing exactly what the linked post points out as the big pitfall of studies like this.
The medium is the massage, more true than ever.
frazw@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
sheridan@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Damnit. Eye lasers would have been so much cooler though.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
And thus, ray-tracing was born.
eatCasserole@lemmy.world 1 month 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.”
Deestan@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s so easy to pontificate instead of actually doing studies, right?
afk_strats@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s a great observation!..
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Fuck yeah. Lets do it!
frazw@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Maybe I was not eloquent enough, but I don’t object to the research being done. I think though that the result is the expected one and therefore it is not noteworthy enough to post on here. Doubtless this paper with end up highly cited.
demonsword@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m glad scientists think otherwise, or we would still be living in the dark ages.
JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch 1 month ago
In other news, dark ages are a myth disproven by science.
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 1 month 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?