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📍 📍 📍 think. This study found some evidence for enhancing critical thinking through the use of ChatGBT. The researchers followed 25 students as they wrote essays with the assistance of ChatGPT. Afterwards, students reported gains in critical thinking, system thinking, and strategic competence. That sounds great, right? Well, the devil is in the details. Toward the end of the report, the…
If you you’re someone who values being able think independently, then you should be troubled by the fact that your brain’s operates all too much like ChatGPT. I’m going to explain how that undermines your ability to think for yourself, but I’ll also give you a key way to change it. How ChatGPT “Thinks” Let’s first understand how ChatGPT “thinks.” ChatGPT is one of several Artificial Intelligences…
Steve Pearlman: Today on actual intelligence, we have a very important and timely discussion with Dr. Robert Neber of a SU, whose recent opinion piece in inside higher education is titled AI and Higher Ed, and an impending collapse. Robert is a teaching professor and honors faculty fellow at the Barrett Honors College at a SU. And the reason that I invited him to speak with us today on actual…
How does your brain tackle a new problem? Believe it or not, it tackles new problems by using old frameworks it created for similar problems you faced before. But if your brain is wired to use old frameworks for new problems, then isn’t that a problem? It is. And that’s why most people never think outside the box. So, how do you get your brain to think innovatively? Divergently? And outside the…
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Is ChatGPT dumbing down your kid? It is and here’s what you can do. A new MIT study reveals the powerful consequences of artificial intelligence on actual intelligence, and guess what? Simply (and terrifyingly) put, the use of artificial intelligence undermines your child’s actual intelligence. In short, when children don’t think for themselves, they don’t learn to think for themselves. That…
We finally have emerging research on Artificial Intelligence's consequences for actual intelligence . If you're an educator or parent--or if you're anyone who just thinks that thinking is important--then you need to learn about this study. It offers hard evidence that our young people are in danger of diminished thinking skills for life. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this…
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