Generative AI enhances individual creativity but reduces the collective diversity of novel content
h/t Jasper Roe on LinkedIn
Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”
h/t Audrey Watters (via 404 media) writes: A rough summary: the more one uses generative AI, the less one thinks critically about the task; the less confidence one has in generative AI to do a task, the more critically one assesses generative AI’s capabilities. I’ve seen some pushback on this study as it‘s based on self-reported assessments of “critical thinking” — what is critical thinking, etc etc. I’m sure psychometricians would be happy to help us understand all this with a good old-fashioned multiple choice test if the IES hadn’t just been gutted. Oh well, all science is just “vibes” now.