Will ChatGPT make us forget how to think? Not if you use it right

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  Does AI or ChatGPT make you dumber or lazier?

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  I saw this item on the internet.

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  Apparently a study was done at some Ivy League university which showed that a group of students who relied on chat GPT to write their essays for them or in some other way use chat GPT that they exhibited a decline in their cognitive abilities measured by some process that I don't fully understand.

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  So I thought about this.

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  And I said, we still have to decide how we use ChatGPT.

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  Obviously,

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  if you are using ChatGPT as a big sort of plagiarizing tool that you're not writing your own material,

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  your cognitive skills and your ability to think for yourself and to write essays is going to decline.

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  If you buy a motorbike and you use that instead of training on a regular bicycle,

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  the strength in your legs is going to decline.

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  That's a no-brainer.

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  to make decisions we have to make judgments.

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  We have to make, I would even say, moral decisions.

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  I've been traveling in Ireland and Scotland,

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  and so I was reading up on what I would call the Scottish Enlightenment thinkers,

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  often theologians in Scotland,

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  and also at the University of Dublin,

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  such as Francis Hutchison or David Hume in Scotland, and I saw his statue in Edinburgh.

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  Part of this whole Enlightenment thing that, you know,

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  everything is not preordained by some divine being.

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