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Originally Posted by NopeNopeNopeNope
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“The study divided 54 subjects—18 to 39 year-olds from the Boston area—into three groups, and asked them to write several SAT essays using OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s search engine, and nothing at all, respectively. Researchers used an EEG to record the writers’ brain activity across 32 regions, and found that of the three groups, ChatGPT users had the lowest brain engagement and “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.”
- Less brain activity because they are having E-Brains do their thinking for them?
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i forgot whomst i follow in the AI Space but they spent the time actually reading the MIT study and because it's a MIT study the wording can be easily turned into whatever headline you want and they poked holes in it. I forget the key points but the overall gist was, yeah don't start from zero and use ChatGPT to do all your thinking for you while you try to write a SAT essay. that's gonna turbo fuck your brain but if you aren't a complete dipshit or have a foundational base layer of competency in the subject AI is obviously a powerful force multiplier and improves productivity immensely, and the EEG part was apparently mis-interpreted even by what the people writing the study we're trying to say
"A new MIT study suggests that using AI writing assistants like ChatGPT can lead to what researchers call "cognitive debt" - a state where outsourcing mental effort weakens learning and critical thinking."
"Cognitive Debt" is a fucking badass new term though
i tried to go find the person/video i remember watching but there's about 10,000 new videos on youtube on the subject just repeating the headline so, like tears the truth is lost in the rain.