Dear MEL Topic Readers,
AI chatbots could be making you stupider
While the tools we use help us accomplish tasks, they seem to change
how we think, too. As we’ve become more reliant on search engines, we seem to remember
details less. Now, what will happen to our brains when we rely more on large
language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT on day-to-day, business, or academic tasks?
The more we outsource cognitive tasks, the less cognitive effort we make, which
might impair our mental skills, such as remembering and critical thinking. In
essay-writing tasks on open-ended topics for college students, the brain
activity of those who used ChatGPT was much less than that of those who didn’t
use the LLM. Also, the LLM users seem to retain or remember less about their
essays than those who wrote them by themselves. If you walk, you’ll feel the
air around you. If you drive, you’ll see things on the way. If you fly, you’ll get
there faster without effort or memory. Think, search, or ask. If we don’t use
our brains, we might impair our cognitive abilities.
Read the article and learn what LLMs do to our brains.
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