Chatboots with artificial intelligence can affect the intelligence of users, slowing the development of critical thinking, memory and language, shows a study by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), quoted by The Telegraph.
A research conducted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) found that the people who relied on Chatgpt for drafting some essays had a lower brain activity than those who used only their own thinking.
Researchers warn of long -term effects of AI in schools and office
The group he used also had weaker results in a series of tests, compared to the participants who worked exclusively on their own (“only with the brain”). Moreover, those who had used you had difficulties when they were asked for tasks without digital assistance. “Dependence on AI systems can lead to a passive approach and a diminution of the activation of critical thinking skills when the person must subsequently solve tasks alone“, Stown in the study. Also, according to the quoted source, the researchers warn that the results are raising “Concerns about long -term educational implications” of the use you have, both in schools and at work.
This study is added to a series of research that suggests that brain activity decreases when people are based on artificial intelligence.
How do you change our perception and behavior
There has been talk for some time about problems associated with the use of artificial intelligence, especially large language models, in relatively common tasks, says Alex Dinacovici, anthropologist, lecturer at SNSPA and the University of Bucharest. One of these is called cognitive discharge (cognitive offloading), and has been observed, among other things, in the implementations at work, he adds.
“From here, there was a kind of alarmism related to you, in general, which is only partially justified and often, denotes a limited understanding of how the cognition works. I would start by specifying that the cognitive system is generally located only in the brain, but distributed inside the body and, more than that, it is more than that, Well for a decade, the cognitive system can incorporate the environmental elements.explains the anthropologist.
“An application based on an LLM is similar to a pair of shoes”
“From this point of view, a healthier and easier way to understand that we can look at the relationship between the cognitive system and the large models of language is, from my point of view, through a parallel with footwear. An application based on an LLM is similar to a pair of shoes. It changes the way you move, and do this by helping you a lot in certain contexts. For example, in the urban environments where the soil is predominantly hard and with dangers at every step, from bumps to the shepherds, the footwear helps you not to get injured, not to get dirty and move much faster.
On the other hand, however, you change your walk and how you feel the world. You no longer have non -mediated tactile contact with the soil, as there are multiple media between your skin and the world. Do not step on the tips, you step on the heel, this distributes the shocks in a different way, and there are associated risks and the walking or running on the joints, which you most likely would not have if you go barefoot ”, he explains.
But people learn to move barefoot and do not use footwear permanently, points out Alex Dinacovici. “This is the case with the AI, from my point of view. If we integrate it in our activity at a time when the essential cognitive skills are already developed, the applications based on large language models can be extremely useful. If, however, we use it from the beginning to supplement certain insufficiently developed skills, we can not be harmful, and we will that we do not understand well enough. especially in the absence of a fundamental understanding on the back process ”he concludes.
