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Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task – MIT Media Lab (www.media.mit.edu)
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Edit: There's a blog post on the failings of the study and the communication around it: Clickbait Neuroscience: Lessons from “Your Brain on ChatGPT” – Mind Brain Education

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.

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[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

And thus, ray-tracing was born.

[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Damnit. Eye lasers would have been so much cooler though.

[–] Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 day ago

Well we do have some kind of eye lasers it's just very low energy