QuadDamage

@QuadDamage@kbin.earth

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  ...you are in a technology community? They're barely defending anything either, just a reasonable take about people saying the same thing about earlier technologies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The people the paper talks about are the masses who think LLMs are "intelligent", then outsource their frontal lobe to Silicon Valley datacenters because it's seemingly easier. People who see LLMs as tools are much less (if at all) affected by this, if anything it's a trap for people who already have lower critical thinking skills in the first place and want GPUs to think for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft reported the same findings earlier this year, spooky to see a more academic institution report the same results.
  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/lee_2025_ai_critical_thinking_survey.pdf
  Abstract for those too lazy to read

  The rise of Generative AI (GenAI) in knowledge workflows raises
  questions about its impact on critical thinking skills and practices.
  We survey 319 knowledge workers to investigate 1) when and
  how they perceive the enaction of critical thinking when using
  GenAI, and 2) when and why GenAI affects their effort to do so.
  Participants shared 936 first-hand examples of using GenAI in work
  tasks. Quantitatively, when considering both task- and user-specific
  factors, a user’s task-specific self-confidence and confidence in
  GenAI are predictive of whether critical thinking is enacted and
  the effort of doing so in GenAI-assisted tasks. Specifically, higher
  confidence in GenAI is associated with less critical thinking, while
  higher self-confidence is associated with more critical thinking.
  Qualitatively, GenAI shifts the nature of critical thinking toward
  information verification, response integration, and task stewardship.
  Our insights reveal new design challenges and opportunities for
  developing GenAI tools for knowledge work.