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GoneOffShore's JournalBrain activity much lower when using AI chatbots, MIT boffins find
The Register - the place to go for all things IT and geeky with a full helping of English snark - put this interesting piece out about using LLM chatbots for writing.
I read the opening paragraphs to Mrs GoS and her response was 'Well, duh!"
Seeking to understand how the use of LLM chatbots affects the brain, a team led by MIT Media Lab research scientist Dr. Nataliya Kosmyna hooked up a group of Boston-area college students to electroencephalogram (EEG) headsets and gave them 20 minutes to write a short essay. One group was directed to write without any outside assistance, a second group was allowed to use a search engine, and a third was instructed to write with the assistance of OpenAI's GPT-4o model. The process was repeated four times over several months.
While not yet peer reviewed, the pre-publication research results suggest a striking difference between the brain activity of the three groups and the corresponding creation of neural connectivity patterns.
To put it bluntly and visually, brain activity in the LLM-using cohort was … a bit dim.
Graphic
Here's a link to the article - https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/18/is_ai_changing_our_brains/?td=rt-3a
Democrats Abroad demo in Marseille France today
We had around 75 people show up at la Vieux Port in Marseille from Democrats Abroad.
And seven or eight Americans who didn't know about the 'manifestation' but were visiting France joined our group.
The first photo is from a guy who is a photojournalist and has just moved to France.
Photo courtesy of Paul Brown
Herding cats!
A Springsteen fan
Mrs GoS
My favourite sign of the day.
Photo courtesy of Paul Brown -
And edited to include the demo in Nice
Some Puerto Ricans want the island to become part of Spain.
An interesting article from the Daily Express.
Taco man might explode - https://www.the-express.com/news/world-news/174270/us-territory-where-locals-want-rejoin-spain-become-like-canary-islands
Robert DeNiro at the Cannes Festival
"Our Philistine president"
https://fb.watch/zAHvX3j1KZ/
'Treated like a criminal': US citizen says he was detained returning from Canada
He voted for #Felon47
"I really thought things would change after this administration, when we have Mr. Trump in office, things would change to the better," Atallah said. "Things actually changed to the worse."
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/treated-like-a-criminal-us-citizen-says-he-was-detained-returning-from-canada/4160718/
Rick Wilson on Musk yesterday
I have many flaws, but at least I’m not a ketamine addict with a botched penis surgery.
Cliff Cash in DC calling for protestors at the Heritage Foundation today - Sunday
And he was approached by someone with a knife as he was making this video-
I can't make the protest, unfortunately
A bill to deny funding to the President for invasions of Canada, Panama, and Greenland
Found this on FB
Check the bill's list of co-sponsors. If your House Member is a sponsor, call and thank them. If your House Member is not a co-sponsor, ask them to sign up ASAP.
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1936/committees
Josh Johnson breaks down the Super Bowl half time show -
Why Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl Half-time Show Is AmericaIt's long. There are some very funny moments.
Right at the end is this very important moment.
Here's the video -
Nazis are now
From Heather Cox Richardson:
HRC / Pritzker: It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic.
We’re at one month 3 days.
Call your Congress Critters!
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