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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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[–] pirat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 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.

[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] pirat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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?