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
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I have been trying to use the top 3 (in my mind at least) LLMs regularly. I feel most likely to grab Copilot as Microsoft has so nicely put a cool looking rainbow colored icon on the taskbar of Windows. I scratch my head a little as I don't recall allowing Microsoft...
AI limitations – let’s change a Google Voice number
TQuist had a Google Voice number for a long time. I never used it well, and then I neglected it, and then it was releasted back into the wild. I confirmed earlier my previous number has been assigned to some else, which makes sense due to my inactivity. So I want a...
This is why we can’t have nice things, part 1 of ???
"Researchers have estimated that a ChatGPT query consumes about five times more electricity than a simple web search." This article from MIT Explained: Generative AI’s environmental impact | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology ughh, the water...
I am your Master of AI for Everyone Basics
I am your Master. Why? Because I've audited and completed the IBM "AI for Everyone: Master the Basics" course offered on EdX. My knowledge of AI was miniscule a few weekds ago. Now it is very slightly less miniscule. I think the most important take away from the...
AI to the rescue? Categories and Tags in WordPress
I realized when writing the first blog post that I needed consideration around this site's taxonomy of Categories and Tags. As it has been a while (ahem) since I worked with such classification for my own site(s) I really could not remember how Categoreis and Tags...
First AI post
I was all excited to write my first blog post about the subject of Artificial Intelligence (not that any intelligence is conveyed in the post, I'm just trying to get some structure established) that I called the post "First AI Post" which I subsequently concluded is a...