Mastodawn

In a post from 2024, I made a point on the insufficiency of language to faithfully render an image from a prompt. In this example, I wanted it to depict a specific woman and dog oriented to a tree in a forest. Although me endeavour was unsuccessful, it made my point.
https://philosophics.blog/2024/11/08/the-insufficiency-of-language-meets-generative-ai/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=lih
#philosophy #language #llm #genai #ai #image #translation #interpretation #cognition #consciousness #perspective #mediation #representation #blog #history #instruction #art

sayzard 3h ago

Ars Technica (@arstechnica)

연구 결과, AI 사용자들이 LLM에 자신의 인지 능력을 과도하게 맡기려는 경향이 꽤 높게 나타났습니다. 인간의 판단과 기억을 AI에 의존하는 현상에 대한 중요한 연구로 볼 수 있습니다.

https://x.com/arstechnica/status/2040175404380803093

#ai #llm #research #cognition #humanai

Ars Technica (@arstechnica) on X

Research finds AI users scarily willing to "surrender" their cognition to LLMs https://t.co/idk95luyf7

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ResearchBuzz: Firehose 9h ago

PsyPost: ChatGPT acts as a “cognitive crutch” that weakens memory, new research suggests. “A recent experiment provides evidence that relying on artificial intelligence to help study new material tends to reduce how much information students remember weeks later. The findings suggest that while these tools can speed up initial learning, they might actually weaken the deep mental processing […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/04/psypost-chatgpt-acts-as-a-cognitive-crutch-that-weakens-memory-new-research-suggests/

PsyPost: ChatGPT acts as a “cognitive crutch” that weakens memory, new research suggests

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Ars Technica News 23h ago

"Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds https://arstechni.ca/VZSm #experiment #psychology #cognition #surrender #Science #science #faulty #AI

"Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds

Experiments show large majorities uncritically accepting "faulty" AI answers.

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Psychotherapy Commission ACPE 1d ago

Short videos delivered in rapid, fragmented formats can hinder memory recall and alter the brain’s retrieval processes compared with a single continuous narrative. The study used brain imaging to show reduced activation in key regions during memory tests after viewing fragmented content, suggesting changes in how information is integrated and retrieved.

This topic is of interest to psychology readers because it highlights how media structure can influence memory, attention, and neural connectivity, enriching discussions about learning, cognition, and media literacy in contemporary society.

Article Title: Brain scans shed light on how short videos impair memory and alter neural pathways

Link to PsyPost Article: https://www.psypost dot org/brain-scans-reveal-how-short-videos-impair-memory-and-disrupt-neural-pathways/

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#memory #neuroscience #mediaeffects #cognition #learningformat

Philo Sophies 1d ago

🪞Understanding #SelfReference and #Consciousness 🤔

The human #brain as a #selfreferentialsystem: An exciting perspective on consciousness!

📎 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2021/12/05/wie-wirklich-ist-bewusstsein/

📺 https://youtu.be/0LG4gU_jfik

#Neuroscience #Neurophilosophy #Cognition #PhilosophyOfMind #HardProblem #Epistemology #Subjectivity #SelfModel #MindBrainProblem #Reality #BCI #NeuralNetworks #ThomasMetzinger #DavidChalmers #AntonioDamasio #DanielDennett #GerhardRoth #Zoomposium

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Wulfy—Speaker to the machines 2d ago

@susankayequinn

Shaw & Nave's "cognitive surrender" paper is an unpublished preprint. No peer review. No journal. Posted on SSRN in January. Minimal (none I could find) academic citations in three months.

What it does have: a Wharton podcast, Futurism coverage, a dozen Substacks, and a term that went viral.

A paper about people uncritically adopting AI outputs goes viral because people uncritically adopted its framing.
That's the whole story.

They gave 1,372 (good sample) people logic puzzles from the Cognitive Reflection Test, questions specifically designed so most people give the wrong answer on instinct (!). Then they embedded ChatGPT, rigged to sometimes give confident wrong answers. The wrong answers were the
*same intuitive errors the test was built to trigger*.

Calling this "System 3", a fundamental revision of Kahneman's cognitive architecture don't make it so. The #AI didn't override anyone's deliberation. It confirmed a bias the participants already had, on a test engineered to produce exactly that bias. That's automation bias.
We've had a name for it since 1996.
Not as sexy as "cognitive surrender" though.

👉Trust in AI predicts following AI. Higher IQ predicts overriding bad answers. Tautologies as moderation analyses.

👉20 cents per item + feedback nearly halved the effect. Some deep cognitive restructuring.
Moni. PEOPLE WANT MONIN FOR SMARTS

👉 The headline effect size is inflated by design, AI-Faulty pushes toward the answer people were already going to give (Super dodgy)

👉 No human-advisor control. Can't distinguish "people defer to AI" from "people defer to any confident source." The entire System 3 framing hangs on a comparison they didn't make.

The finding, people follow confident bad AI advice, is real. But that's automation bias lit, not a new cognitive architecture.
Computer says NO!
"Cognitive surrender" is a marketing term.
"System 3" is a brand extension.

Enormous vibes-to-citation ratio.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6097646

TLDR; People boost this uncited preprint because catch title thats retreaded a 29yo "discovery" that folks trust machines.

#llm #CognitiveNeuroscience #cognition

ResearchBuzz: Firehose 2d ago

The Guardian: Pupils in England are losing their thinking skills because of AI, survey suggests. “Pupils using artificial intelligence are losing their capacity for critical thinking, according to a survey of secondary school teachers in England. Two-thirds said they had observed the decline among children who they also said no longer felt the need to spell because of voice-to-text technology.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/02/the-guardian-pupils-in-england-are-losing-their-thinking-skills-because-of-ai-survey-suggests/

The Guardian: Pupils in England are losing their thinking skills because of AI, survey suggests

The Guardian: Pupils in England are losing their thinking skills because of AI, survey suggests. “Pupils using artificial intelligence are losing their capacity for critical thinking, accordi…

ResearchBuzz: Firehose

ポイズン雷花 3d ago

ガラクタ語の旋律　Мелодія мови Ґаракута
次世代への負債に他ならない。
зсув відбирає сенс.

https://www.deviantart.com/poison-raika/art/Garakuta-go-no-Senritsu-1303968371

#ＡＩ生成 #walk #hold #map #katakana #lost #compass #need #cross #ocean #sound #substitute #real #ear #grow #use #symbol #brain #reject #authentic #not #mere #habit #evidence #coordinate #cognition #have #say #final

American Naturaliﬆ 4d ago

Caro et al. investigate cognition and metacognition in wild great tit parents deciding which chick to feed. They found that parents change their minds frequently, and the decision time varies with decision complexity and urgency.

Read now ahead of print!
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/738498

#Cognition #Metacognition #EEB