There’s an article published at MIT that studied “Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
This blog post was pitched as a rebuttal of sorts to the MIT study – definitely worth the read:
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/against-brain-damage?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
The upside of AI
Positive thoughts? I came across two older items last week that really made me feel good about Artificial Intelligence and some of the good aspects and possibilities. Like most people grounded in reality, the very impact of AI's disruption on the job front and...
The upside of AI
Positive thoughts? I came across two older items last week that really made me feel good about Artificial Intelligence and some of the good aspects and possibilities. Like most people grounded in reality, the very impact of AI's disruption on the job front and...
That “aha!” moment – a simple image
I finally committed to the "Plus" ($20 a month) version of ChatGPT and have been finding more and more things to use it for, and trying my best not to use it as lazy google. Hum de dum and I'm looking at making an AI Policy for TQuist, as well as provide information...
Anthropic’s AI Fluency course
Here's the link to Anthropic's AI Fluency course: https://www.anthropic.com/ai-fluency
Alexa, cook me some eggs!
NY Times / AMZN deal Here's an article from The Verge about The New York Times recent deal with Amazon do deliver its “editorial content to a variety of Amazon customer experiences,” I shudder to think how little The Gray Lady is getting paid. However, I hope the AI...
Oh the Humanity!’s Last Exam!
Humanity's Last Exam Benchmarks are interesting. Here's the deep thought - at what point in the overall benchmark process will AI inject bias into the benchmark test? And to what end? Maybe not so deep a thought. Humanity's Last Exam has been bantered about...
Rollups best left to fruit
The Neuron newsletter served up this TechCrunch article about Read the article https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/01/early-ai-investor-elad-gil-finds-his-next-big-bet-ai-powered-rollups/. Here's a quote from the article: "The idea is to identify opportunities to buy...