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 [email protected].

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 [email protected] and other lemmy communities here.

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

  • pirat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    I want a free cookie emoji!

    I didn’t ask an LLM, no, I asked Wikipedia:

    The mean month-length in the Gregorian calendar is 30.436875 days.

    Edit: but since I already knew a year is 365.2425 I could, of course, have divided that by the 12 months of a year to get that number.

    So,

    1041 ÷ 30.436875 ≈ 34 months and…

    0.2019343313 × 30.436875 ≈ 6 days and…

    0.146249999987 × 24 ≈ 3 hours and…

    0.509999999688 × 60 ≈ 30 minutes and…

    0.59999998128 × 60 ≈ 35 seconds and…

    0.9999988768 × 1000 ≈ 999 milliseconds and

    0.9999988768 × 1000000 ≈ 999999 nanoseconds

    34 months + 6d 3h 30m 35s 999ms 999999 ns (or we could call it 36s…)

    Edit: 34 months is better known as 2 years and 10 months.

      • pirat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        24 hours ago

        Thank you, you really didn’t have to. That cupcake is truly the icing and it’s almost too much! I’ll give you this giant egg of unknown origin: 🥚 in return, as long as you promise to use it for baking and making some more of those cupcakes for whoever else needs or deserves one within the next few days, hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds and 999999 bananoseconds 🍌