AI will make us stupid -- ChatGPT use linked to cognitive decline: MIT research

[Ponietz]

We’re barreling towards our own incapacitation.

https://www.krqe.com/news/national/chatgpt-use-linked-to-cognitive-decline-mit-research

The findings suggest that using LLMs can harm a user’s cognitive function over time, especially in younger users. It comes as educators continue to navigate teaching when artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly accessible for cheating.

“What really motivated me to put it out now before waiting for a full peer review is that I am afraid in 6-8 months, there will be some policymaker who decides, ‘let’s do GPT kindergarten.’ I think that would be absolutely bad and detrimental,” the study’s main author Nataliya Kosmyna told Time magazine. “Developing brains are at the highest risk.”

However, using AI in education doesn’t appear to be slowing down. In April, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that aims to incorporate AI into U.S. classrooms.

“The basic idea of this executive order is to ensure that we properly train the workforce of the future by ensuring that school children, young Americans, are adequately trained in AI tools, so that they can be competitive in the economy years from now into the future, as AI becomes a bigger and bigger deal,” White House staff secretary Will Scharf said at the time.

[EYESORE 9001]

1. That's it. I'm breaking Luddite.

Only half kidding. Just today, I described a mechanism to a summer intern using the word ‘hinge.’ I had to play charades with this guy to explain what it meant. I only barely contained my bewilderment at just how little some folks know about the actual, physical world we inhabit. I don’t see AI helping whatsoever in that regard, and I see lots of ways that it can turn us into mental weaklings.

[Noodleboy13]

2. I'm not so much of a Luddite as a proto Butlerian jihadi. Think Dune.

Peace ,
Noodleboy