Is ChatGPT Making You Dumber？ MIT Study Exposes the Truth
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ChatGbt, the chat app, is making you brain dead? Is it a good thing or a bad thing, and is it being used by both sides of the fence? Is it better than the alternatives?
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is chat gbt making you brain dead a recent study by mit claims it is there's tanky findings they
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found yes you do get the speed and convenience and replacement mental lethargy and all this
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other stuff at the beginning when chat gbt came out if you remember teachers used to say
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we can now tell if kids are using chat gbt to write their paperwork or their homework
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guess who's using that chat gbt to grade the homeworks the same teachers that were complaining
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about kids using chat gbt now they use it to save time to grade the homework so they're not even
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reading the entire paper so it's something that both sides are using is it a good thing is it a
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bad thing let's see what it might just say here
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it tanky findings number one lowest brain engagement an eeg scan measure brain activity across 32 regions
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of the three groups chat gbt google search and no tools the chat gbt groups show the weakest
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overall brain activity especially in regions linked to semantic processing creativity and memory so
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that makes sense because google you're asking basic questions chat gbt you can ask specific creative
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questions to give you a lot more nowadays people are coding with chat gbt people are making websites
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with chat gbt so i can see that number two mental laziness over time participants grew increasingly
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dependent on chat gbt by the third essay most had stopped editing or refining the outputs they were
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copy pasting entire responses with minimal thought or personalization that's the next part your signature
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is not on it i'm just using chat gbt i'm getting lazier number three soulless writing educators
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described chat gbt written essays as uniform emotionless and creatively sterile though grammatically
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correct they lacked original insights or personal voice hallmark of critical thinking so so far all three
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are critical thinking let's go to the fourth one poor memory retention when asked to rewrite their essay
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without ai assistance most chat gbt users couldn't recall what they'd written eeg readings show low alpha
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and theta brainwave activity markers of weak memory encoding and cognitive engagement okay that makes
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sense fifth highest engagement from non-ai users the group writing without any tools demonstrated the
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strongest neural activity especially in areas tied to imagination language construction and decision
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making six google outperformed chat gbt even traditional google search which still requires filtering evaluating
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rephrasing led to higher satisfaction of mental stimulation than chat gbt i wonder if this mit research has been
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funded by google by the way because this is kind of making google look good right number seven loneliness
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correlation separate mit research linked heavy chat gbt usage to increase loneliness especially in users who
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substituted real conversations with ai interactions okay i can see that if somebody sends you a text like i see
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nowadays you know how you know somebody's responded to you in uh in uh chat gbt it has that uh what do you call it
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the hyphen twice a longer hyphen i'll see somebody i'll send a text message to them so hey based on these three
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different things uh what happened to the three different clients and i will literally see the message sent to me
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that was from chat gbt so i'm i'm thinking they take my text question put it in chat gbt say my boss just
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asked me this question this is what i have what is the best way to give him a response to make him feel at
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ease with to lower tensions blah blah blah blah copy paste put it in there i'm like this guy just sent me back a
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chat gbt response just talk to me tell me how you feel so you almost feel like they're not talking to you
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i'm talking to chat gbt number eight programmers also affected a follow-up study on coders using ai
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systems revealed even steeper drops in cognitive efforts with some users becoming so reliant that
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they couldn't troubleshoot their own code without help i can see that number nine children at greatest
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risk researchers warned that early exposure to ai generator writing and decision making could stun
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development of memory resilience and problem solving especially during formative years i agree 10
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comprehension failures the study included embedded trick questions and hidden assumptions
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chat gbt users consistently miss them confirming surface level processing and lack of creative
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scrutiny imagine life without google maps or you know any of the maps that we currently have right
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now on apple maps that we use imagine like you go straight make a lot before it would be honey
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why did you say right it's left babe i this map i don't can you look at it stop pull over
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now that so that made us not have to think about maps and work car just tells you make a left now we
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get upset if we don't have any service for five seconds because we can't see where we go
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calculator same thing you could be able to figure out different ways of calculating 19 times 19
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38 times 47 nowadays just go to the cal it's going to make us dumber right the same goes with the
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autocorrect grammarly type of apps or social media algorithms with ai this is just getting started
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it's going to get a thousand times worse where the work that's going to be done you're not going to
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be no if the person is telling you this or if a machine is saying this so how do you fight against
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this i got four kids we're sitting at the table we're having discussions about different things
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politics business finance ideas and every time it's like what does chat gbt think no put the phone
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aside no no let me just check something give me the phone put it down i want to know what you think
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about it well you know what do you think about it how do you feel about it i don't want to talk
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to chat gbt i'm asking you what does your brain think about this what is the right let's see what
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chat gbt says i don't want to know what chat gbt says i want to know what you think it was such a
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great exercise to constantly do this with all of us because it's such an easy habit to go over here
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right the same happens in group settings when we're sitting there hashing out an issue we're on the
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podcast half the time what are we doing we used to say can you google this we don't google things
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anymore see what chat gbt says ask the following question see what it says what it say about this
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what it say about that but we don't ask strategy think we ask general information think right like
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hey you allow us to start a third party how do you start a third party who has done it before how
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complicated is it versus if you were to do it today how would you have done it that is a conversation
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i want to have to see what you think about it because that is the part where your signature
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is going on whatever the idea is if the idea is coming from here what am i hiring you for
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the more and more your ideas are predicated just based on what chat gbt tells you
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you're replaceable you know by who by ai you're causing yourself to be replaced by ai
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what do you think so imagine if i'm on the other side this is what my response would be
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i'll say hey john you asked the follow question for 10 ideas yes here's what chat gbt said the 10
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ideas are i'm gonna talk to my boss that way this is chat gbt's 10 ideas this one put it out i
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highlighted three of them that are good but these are my 10 ideas that i came up with really that's
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not chat gbt no these are my 10 ideas what are they boom boom boom boom boom i'm differentiating
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myself to show here's chat gbt but this is who i am you have to find a way to now be competitive
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because you have to use it it's like to be honest i don't even use chat gbt you then you're not you're
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going to lose your competitor you have to use chat gbt in today's climate you have to use ai today
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you can't have that big of an ego to say i'm not going to use it but you have to be the differentiator
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i have employees who respond in text messages to me in chat gbt and they think i don't know
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listen there's plenty of ways when you copy paste the words and hyphen and italic in certain places
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that is easy to tell and even if you go on a place to make it in a way that another person can't see
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it yeah there's there's people that get enough message that they can tell but if you can find a
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way to go like this that's image if you can find a way with your kids to ask them like even right now
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before we went live you weren't here i got four people sitting right in front of me
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i said what do you think about chat g do you think it's doing that's making your brain dead
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what do you think what do you think what do you think we're processing it that's where this thing
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works so i do agree that that is happening but i think they've been saying that about other
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technologies in the past the right people are going to still find a way to have a differentiator
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if your differentiator is you're very good at certain prompts on chat gbt you're not that different
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nowadays because eventually everyone's going to learn that the differentiator has to be here
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has to be from you that you look at the world in a completely different way that's the biggest
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differentiator today in my opinion if you've got value yet it's pretty give it a thumbs up and
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