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Generative AI's impact on thinking mirrors writing and internet's cognitive shifts

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The author reflects on the impact of technology on human cognition, drawing parallels between writing, the internet's Google effect, and generative AI. Writing provided an external memory, leading to a decline in memorization. Similarly, the internet's accessibility of information has affected how we recall facts. Generative AI now presents a new trade-off, potentially impacting the very process of thinking. AI

IMPACT Generative AI may fundamentally alter human thinking, similar to how writing and the internet have changed memory and information recall.

RANK_REASON The item is an opinion piece discussing the philosophical impact of AI on cognition, not a release or research.

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    New post: What Writing Cost Us, the last part of my Writing as a Technology series. Writing handed us a permanent external memory and we stopped memorising. The

    New post: What Writing Cost Us, the last part of my Writing as a Technology series. Writing handed us a permanent external memory and we stopped memorising. The Internet did the same thing again, and this time we could study it as it happened: the Google effect. Now generative AI…

    LINKS ctnet.co.uk/downsides-of-writing-ai

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