Kevin Beaumont“Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.”
https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/
Microsoft researchers say an overdependency on AI tools like Copilot negatively impacts people's critical thinking capabilities.
https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/copilot-and-chatgpt-makes-you-dumb-new-microsoft-study
Will an overreliance on Copilot and ChatGPT make you dumb? A new Microsoft study says AI 'atrophies' critical thinking: "I already feel like I have lost some brain cells."
Microsoft researchers say an overdependency on AI tools like Copilot negatively impacts people's critical thinking capabilities.
I’m refusing to on board to Copilot at work. I’m the only person. When asked why I sent them the MIT and Microsoft research papers as openers.
Gabriel Adrian Samfira@GossiTheDog it feels like the equivalent to hand-holding. A decade ago when I first tried to mentor someone, I noticed that offering quick replies to problems they could figure out on their own, made them stop thinking.
Ignoring them for 15-30 minutes before replying usually resulted in a:
"never mind, I figured it out".
Feels the same when using Copilot. I tend to disable it.
Paul Cantrell@gabriel @tiotasram @GossiTheDog
A maxim teachers sometimes use: “the minimum intervention to get them unstuck”
(Not always the right advice, but it is more often than our natural inclinations would say it is!)
Tiota Sram@inthehands @gabriel @GossiTheDog yup.
The Socratic method is great for avoiding over-help too.
@inthehands @tiotasram @GossiTheDog yes. I only give prompt answers when I know it's something that they can't know in their current learning curve. But things that have been explained already that just need to be put together to form a solution, I tend to leave them to it for a while before asking some guiding questions. And eventually help unblock if they are still stuck.