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

 

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...

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Copilot Summarizes just the page

I saw a headline Windows dashboard about a popular internet provider that filed for Chapter 11.  I was curious and decided to check it out and clicked the story. The news item is from "TheStreet" and the initial page does not show the entire article, just the first...

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Character.AI and possible suicide

I came across this news item from a while back: This mom believes an AI chatbot is responsible for her son’s suicide  Wow, this is just brutal and my heart goes out to his family and friends. Character.ai and the other named defendents tried to use free speech in...

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SMH – AI-Driven Layoffs

Shaking my head in response to someone responding "We acted too quickly" with respect to downsizing as a result of AI implementation. Step 1 - Jump on AI bandwagon Step 2 - implement (pricey?) AI stuff hot off the presses Step 3 - Layoffs = more $$$ for us!  Or more...

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TEDs v 2.what?

I came across this TechCrunch article covering the recent news that Google is committing 150M to develop AI glasses with Warby Parker: https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/20/google-commits-150m-to-develop-ai-glasses-with-warby-parker/ My immediate thought was a new take on...

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Bill Gates, not a jerk billionaire

Bill Gates has announced he's giving away 200B over the next 20 years to help address 3 moonshot global needs.  Here's the announcement from Gates Foundation There are a lot of people that idolize billionaires and I am not one of them.  A have an internal screed about...

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Gemini = Lazy Google?

Now my mind is just equating Gemini to Lazy Google.  For example, I wanted to modify the footer of tquist.com website.  But what footer and where do I modify this?  In the pre-Gemini (or LLM) days I would have typed my question into Google search and looked for...

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