- Using artificial intelligence for as little as 10 minutes significantly reduces a person's ability to stick with difficult tasks, a new study has found.
- Experiments involving 1,222 online participants showed that relying on tools like ChatGPT erodes cognitive fitness by removing productive struggle.
- Participants given AI assistance during maths and reading comprehension tests gave up or performed significantly worse once the tool was removed.
- Brian Christian from the University of California, Berkeley, warned that AI systems are ironically helping humans in unhelpful ways.
- The findings were recently presented at a conference in a paper titled AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance.
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