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
Musings – Prompting, productivity, and context
Prompting, Productivity and Context Finish the following sentence: "Blogging is so ..." and yet here I am. Prompting I've been trying to engage people close to me as to their AI experiences and uses, either professionally or personnally. I find myself reminding...
Subscribed to One Useful Thing
One Useful Thing is the name of Ethan Mollick's substack newsletter. Ethan is the Co-Director of the Wharton Generative AI Labs. Wharton Generative AI Labs has lots of good information including a prompt library: https://gail.wharton.upenn.edu/prompt-library/ Check...
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...