As statements, each more worrying than the last, continue to multiply in recent weeks, including Sam Altman who declared that artificial intelligence has even already surpassed human intelligence, should we really be worried?
If we believe the latest study from the MIT Media Lab from the last few days, the impacts on our intelligence would be much greater than we imagine to date.
A panel of 54 participants to take the test
In order to draw initial conclusions on the use of artificial intelligence in our daily lives, the MIT research team called upon a group of 54 participants between the ages of 18 and 39.
Although this sample does not does not yet allow us to assert a general trend, and that this is currently only a preliminary version, this study allows us to highlight certain behaviors that regular ChatGPT users have undoubtedly already noticed…
Indeed, the researchers decided to divide the participants into three groups during this study with:
- A first group having access to ChatGPT
- A second group being authorized to carry out searches on Google
- A final group which had to use their memory, without any external help
Invited to carry out tasks which consisted of writing according to the researchers' requests, the latter observed a great disparity according to the groups…
Brain connections lagging behind because of ChatGPT
As we can read in the MIT study, the researchers do not are not content to just read the results of the exercises asked of the participants. Indeed, in order to be as factual and objective as possible, the team of researchers decided to use EEG signals (ElectroEncephalogram) which consist of recording brain activity using electrodes.
And while the researchers noticed that the group with only access to their memory made a greater number of brain connections compared to the group that had access to Google searches, the same cannot be said for the group with access to the OpenAI tool.
Beyond the brain connections that are decreasing for ChatGPT users, the figures highlighted in this study are just as worrying. When asked after completing these different exercises, 83% of participants who used ChatGPT could not cite what they had written a few minutes earlier compared to 11.1% for those who had no access to any tool.
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