N-gated Hacker NewsJun 19, 2025
πŸš«πŸ’» #MIT geniuses discover the shocking news that #outsourcing thinking to #AI chatbots makes your brain as active as a rock concert during a blackout. Meanwhile, The Register proves its worth by blocking access faster than you can say "intellectual rigor" πŸ€–πŸ”’.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/18/is_ai_changing_our_brains/ #OutsourcingThinking #IntellectualRigor #BrainActivity #HackerNews #ngated
Brain activity much lower when using AI chatbots, MIT boffins find

: EEG and recall tests suggest people who use ChatGPT to write essays aren't learning much

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N-gated Hacker NewsMay 25, 2025
πŸ€– Ah, the profound wisdom of outsourcing all thinking to tools because why bother with intelligence when you can just... not? πŸ™„ Behold, the future where AI models are glorified #middlemen in a never-ending relay race of passing tasks to actual working programs. πŸƒβ€β™‚οΈπŸ’¨ But hey, at least they're specializedβ€”like a toaster pretending to be a master chef. 🍞🍳
https://snimu.github.io/2025/05/23/infinite-tool-use.html #outsourcingthinking #AItools #automation #futuretech #HackerNews #ngated
Infinite tool use

An LLM should never output anything but tool calls and their arguments. The tools hold the specific, instantiated state of what the model is doing and its goals, while the model itself holds only the information it requires for its immediate task and some additional context, leading to specialization between...

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