Multiple Studies Now Suggest That AI Will Make Us Morons

For the second time in two weeks, a study has been published which suggests that people who regularly use AI can display cognitive capacities much less than those who do not count. Studies have strengthened the accusations of criticisms that AI makes you stupid.

Most recent study was led by the Wharton school of the University of Pennsylvania and examined a sample of more than 4,500 participants. The study, which examined the cognitive differences between people who used LLM as a chatgpt to do research and those who used Google Research, revealed that people who used chatbots tended to “develop less knowledge” of the subjects they were looking for. The two groups were invited to find out how to start a vegetable garden, some participants were randomly selected to use AI, while others were invited to use a search engine. According to the results of the study, those who used Chatgpt gave very worse advice on how to plant a vegetable patch than those who used the search engine. Researchers write:

Less deep knowledge comes from an inherent characteristic of LLM – the presentation of results as information syntheses rather than individual research links – which makes learning more passive than in standard web research, where users discover and actively synthesize the sources of information themselves. In turn, during the training subsequently of advice on the subject according to what they learned, those who learned from LLM Syntheses (compared to standard research results) feel less invested in the formation of their advice and, more importantly, create larger advice, less original – and ultimately less likely to be adopted by the beneficiaries.

The study concludes that this has happened ironically due to the announced advantage of Chatgpt – “sparing users the need to browse the results and to synthesize the information themselves.” Because the researchers did not have to seek information themselves, their “depth of knowledge” was significantly lower than those who did. “In this sense, we can consider learning via LLM rather than web research as analogous to obtaining the solution to a mathematical problem rather than trying to solve it itself,” concludes research.

The UPENN study follows the heels of research Produced by MIT, published earlier this month, which showed a cognitive impact similar to a similar situation produced by AI. This study, which observed the neuronal activity of the students who used the Chatppt to study, revealed that an increased use of AI resulted in a reduction in brain activity, or what the researchers called “cognitive debt”. The study used an EEG machine to measure the neural activity of three different students of students – the one who used Chatgpt to study, the one who used Google Search and the one who used either. The study has shown that chatgpt users displayed a cognitive activity much less than that used Google Search to find information.

MIT article methodology has since been called upon to question by AI lovers. Critics noted that the study in question was not examined by peers and that a small size sample of participants barely makes it exhaustive. Likewise, criticisms argued that if EEG measures show certain decreases in specific forms of brain activity, this does not necessarily mean that participants are “more stupid” as a result. Indeed, less mental effort (and, consequently, less activity) can be a sign than a person is in fact more competent in a task and does not have to spend as much energy as consequently. From a certain perspective, these recent assessments of the brain impact of AI come together of a moral panic about a very well understood new phenomenon.

On the other hand, the conclusion that using an application to complete an assignment of homework makes you less able to think for yourself seems to be obvious. The outsourcing of mental tasks to software means that you do not perform these duties yourself and, as it is quite well established, doing something yourself is often the best way to learn. Of course, the Internet has reduced human mental activity since its first line. When is the last time you had to remember how to get somewhere? He really seems to be Google Maps collectively stole this capacity More than a decade ago.

Other evidence of the stupidification effect of AI are even more obvious: the Maelstrom de la cheating This happens in the American education system means that students make their way to high school and college without learning to write an essay or interpret a book. Although there is clearly a lot to learn about the impact of AI, some of its side effects seem obvious. If a student cannot write a test without the help of a chatbot, he probably does not have a particularly brilliant academic future in front of them.