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Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task [edited post to change title and URL] (www.media.mit.edu)
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Note: this lemmy post was originally titled MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline and linked to this article, which I cross-posted from this post in !fuck_ai@lemmy.world.

Someone pointed out that the "Science, Public Health Policy and the Law" website which published this click-bait summary of the MIT study is not a reputable publication deserving of traffic, so, 16 hours after posting it I am editing this post (as well as the two other cross-posts I made of it) to link to MIT's page about the study instead.

The actual paper is here and was previously posted on !fuck_ai@lemmy.world and other lemmy communities here.

Note that the study with its original title got far less upvotes than the click-bait summary did 🀑

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[–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

The other day I saw someone ask ChatGPT how long it would take to perform 1.5 million instances of a given task, if each instance took one minute. Mfs cannot even divide 1.5 million minutes by 60 to get get 25,000 hours, then by 24 to get 1,041 days. Pretty soon these people will be incapable of writing a full sentence without ChatGPT's input

Edit to add: divide by 365.25 to get 2.85 years. Anyone who can tell me how many months that is without asking an LLM gets a free cookie emoji

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    I want a free cookie emoji!

    I didn't ask an LLM, no, I asked Wikipedia:

    The mean month-length in the Gregorian calendar is 30.436875 days.

    Edit: but since I already knew a year is 365.2425 I could, of course, have divided that by the 12 months of a year to get that number.

    So,

    1041 Γ· 30.436875 β‰ˆ 34 months and...

    0.2019343313 Γ— 30.436875 β‰ˆ 6 days and...

    0.146249999987 Γ— 24 β‰ˆ 3 hours and...

    0.509999999688 Γ— 60 β‰ˆ 30 minutes and...

    0.59999998128 Γ— 60 β‰ˆ 35 seconds and...

    0.9999988768 Γ— 1000 β‰ˆ 999 milliseconds and

    0.9999988768 Γ— 1000000 β‰ˆ 999999 nanoseconds

    34 months + 6d 3h 30m 35s 999ms 999999 ns (or we could call it 36s...)

    Edit: 34 months is better known as 2 years and 10 months.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    πŸͺ

    You got as far as nanoseconds so here's a cupcake for extra credit too 🧁

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Thank you, you really didn't have to. That cupcake is truly the icing and it's almost too much! I'll give you this giant egg of unknown origin: πŸ₯š in return, as long as you promise to use it for baking and making some more of those cupcakes for whoever else needs or deserves one within the next few days, hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds and 999999 bananoseconds 🍌

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Rough estimate using 30 days as average month would be ~35 months (1050 = 35Γ—30). The average month is a tad longer than 30 days, but I don't know exactly how much. Without a calculator, I'd guess the total result is closer to 34.5. Just using my own brain, this is as far as I get.

    Now, adding a calculator to my toolset, the average month is 365.2425 d / 12 m = 30.4377 d/m. The total result comes out to about 34.2, so I overestimated a little.

    Also, the total time is 1041.66... which would be more correctly rounded to 1042, but has negligible impact on the redult.

    Edit: I saw someone else went even harder on this, but for early morning performance, I'm satisfied with my work

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    You forgot doing the years, which is a bit trickier if we take into account the leap years.

    According to the Gregorian calendar, every fourth year is a leap year unless it's divisible by 100 – except those divisible by 400 which are leap years anyway. Hence, the average length of one year (over 400 years) must be:

    365 + 1⁄4 βˆ’ 1⁄100 + 1⁄400 = 365.2425 days

    So,

    1041 / 365.2425 β‰ˆ 2.85 years

    Or 2 years and...

    0.850161194275 Γ— 365.2425 β‰ˆ 310 days and...

    0.514999999987 Γ— 24 β‰ˆ 12 hours and...

    0.359999999688 Γ— 60 β‰ˆ 21 minutes and...

    0.59999998128 Γ— 60 β‰ˆ 36 seconds

    1041 days is just about 2y 310d 12h 21m 36s

    Wtf, how did we go from 1041 whole days to fractions of a day? Damn leap years!

    Had we not been accounting for them, we would have had 2 years and...

    0.852054794521 Γ— 365 = 311.000000000165 days

    Or simply 2y 311d if we just ignore that tiny rounding error or use fewer decimals.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Engineers be like…

    1041/365 =2,852

    .852*365=310.980

    Thus 2 y 311 d. Or really, fuck it 3 y

    Edit. #til

    The lemmy app on my phone does basic calculator functions.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    Or really, fuck it 3 y

    Seems about right! But really, it often seems pretty useful to me, since it removes a lot of unnecessary information thoughout a content feed or thread, though I usually still want to be able to see the exact date and time when tapping or hovering over the value for further context.

    Edit: However, the lemmy client I use, Eternity, shows the entire date and time for each comment instead of the age of it, and I'm fine with that too, but unsure what I actually prefer...

    The lemmy app on my phone does basic calculator functions.

    Which client and how?

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