Two things I found interesting:
Effects are concentrated among users who seek direct solutions: Persistence costs were concentrated among participants who prompted AI to solve tasks for them directly. Using AI for hints or clarifications did not produce significant impairments.
So that’s a major caveat.
Another interesting thing would be to know if this is an AI effect specifically, or a technical aid effect generally. For instance, would a calculator produce similar results?
I would have to say yes, anecdotally. I have faint memories of being good at times tables. Those days were long ago.
Pretty interesting! I guess my opinion on the topic of AI rotting your brain is that we should continue to find projects or work that challenge us, even while using AI. Like if everything you are working on can easily be done by AI, maybe you should find something harder to work on.
I’m saying that from like a hobby/project perspective. If you’re just at work to check out and get a paycheck, yeah who cares, get you work done quick and enjoy your time!
According to a new study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Oxford, and UCLA, just a 10-minute session with an AI assistant can lead to users significantly abandoning their own capacity for reasoning
1minute tops if it is anime grok
I’m not going to stop using AI to do the boring parts of my job while I read books I actually like as I wfh even if it atrophies the part of my brain that does my job lol
