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Rael Hornby

This is your brain on ChatGPT

Photograph of an egg frying in a pan, edited to resemble the 1987 'this is your brain on drugs' PSA.

Sizzle. Sizzle. That's the sound of your neurons frying over the heat of a thousand GPUs as your generative AI tool of choice cheerfully churns through your workload. As it turns out, offloading all of that cognitive effort to a robot as you look on in luxury is turning your brain into a couch potato.

That's what a recently published (and yet to be peer-reviewed) paper from some of MIT's brightest minds suggests, anyway.

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