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WARNING ! AI rots your Brain

michaelkellett

From yesterdays Telegraph:

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The article is based on work done at MIT 

https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/your-brain-on-chatgpt/overview/

https://www.brainonllm.com/

If you follow the second link you can eventually find  .pdf of the full research paper (if you've been using ChatGPT a lot recently you may struggle.)

You have been warned !

MK

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  • Just maybe... AI can help the smart get smarter.  I won't say it helps the dumb get dumber.  Some of them are quite brilliant - thinking of things I would never have even considered - EVER.  We have always had the lazy and the Con man.  I do think we lose some of the simple, elegant solutions.  But do they still have value?  How important is optimizing your code when you have Gigabytes of RAM and Terabytes of storage space?  Is it as critical as back when 640k was the hard stop limit?

    I think of the movie "Idiocracy" and of Orson Welles' "The Time Machine".  And then I remind myself "It's never going to happen."  Some Engineers are made, but most are born.  The same is true of artists.  I'm pretty sure that when folks saw the horseless carriage, some pundits said that people would stop walking and get too fat to move (like in WALL-E).  They could never have comprehended that running would be a $44 BILLION dollar world-wide industry in 2024.

    We've been told for forever, "Work smarter.  Not harder."  Maybe MIT's assessment is skewed.

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  • Just maybe... AI can help the smart get smarter.  I won't say it helps the dumb get dumber.  Some of them are quite brilliant - thinking of things I would never have even considered - EVER.  We have always had the lazy and the Con man.  I do think we lose some of the simple, elegant solutions.  But do they still have value?  How important is optimizing your code when you have Gigabytes of RAM and Terabytes of storage space?  Is it as critical as back when 640k was the hard stop limit?

    I think of the movie "Idiocracy" and of Orson Welles' "The Time Machine".  And then I remind myself "It's never going to happen."  Some Engineers are made, but most are born.  The same is true of artists.  I'm pretty sure that when folks saw the horseless carriage, some pundits said that people would stop walking and get too fat to move (like in WALL-E).  They could never have comprehended that running would be a $44 BILLION dollar world-wide industry in 2024.

    We've been told for forever, "Work smarter.  Not harder."  Maybe MIT's assessment is skewed.

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